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Assume you have data that falls in a normal distribution that reflects an ordinal scale. Would it be appropriate to use parametric or nonparametric procedures to analyze these data? Defend your response.

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Use the non parametric procedure because ordinals do not support use of the means or variance testing. They also are not subject to outliers because they are in specified order. In other words, non parametric does not assume that there are definable ...

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