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- Can you do a causal study when much of the primary data collected is descriptive
opinion and ordinal or interval data? A causal study can be done when the primary data collected is descriptive opinion and ordinal or interval data because that is the data that there is to work with. There will never be the “perfect” type of data to pinpoint exactly what causes something because there are always variables that the study cannot know exist that are influencing every situation that is being researched. A causal study is trying to understand the cause and effect of independent and dependent variables and thus the descriptive opinion and ordinal or interval data is not the best way to judge that affect. Descriptive opinion is what it sounds like, it is trying to describe characteristics, but does not necessarily prove any cause and effect. “Ordinal data is the order of the values is what’s important and significant, but the differences between each one is not really known. Ordinal data shows imply an order, but the differences between order of 7 and 5 for example may not be equal to the difference between 5 and 3 when ordering information. The useful information in ordinal data is the median and mode” (Visano). Interval data tells the order and the exact value of the difference in the values of the data. Ordinal and Interval data combined with the descriptive opinion begins to give some sort of causality to form, but still is or
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not the perfect type of data to glean a perfect causal relationship from but could be used if that were all the data that was available.
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