EDUCATION UGC NET
PSYCHOLOGY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Age
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Gender
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Marital status
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Place of residence
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer to the given question is option c) The time spent by a physician with a patient. Among all the given options, only option c) (i.e. the time spent by a physician with a patient) cannot be represented by a discrete random variable as the time could assume a positive fraction value.
Detailed explanation-2: -If you’re asked whether age is a continuous or discrete variable in an Introductory Statistics class, the correct answer is technically continuous.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mondal[1] suggests that age can be viewed as a discrete variable because it is commonly expressed as an integer in units of years with no decimal to indicate days and presumably, hours, minutes, and seconds.
Detailed explanation-4: -The weights are not discrete variables.