Question

1. A researcher asked 37 respondents how they felt about the following statement: “When a musical artist says something that goes against your own beliefs, you should not buy that artist’s music.” They were given the following options:

1. Disagree
2. Neutral
3. Agree

Ten of the respondents chose option (1); 20 of the respondents chose option (2); and seven of the respondents chose option (3).

The researcher concludes that the range for the data is 2.   Do you agree or disagree with the researcher? If you agree, why do you agree? If you disagree, why do you disagree and what is the actual range?

Answer 1

We disagree with the researcher's conclusion that the range for the data is 2 because the variable under consideration is categorical data and with categorical data, range does not make sense.

So,

Answer to the question:

what is the actual range?

is:

Range does not exist for categorical data.