Categorical data is more often used when quantitative measurements are impossible or impractical. One example is asking customers to rate their experience as one of several categories. Continuous ...

It is useful to remember that tallies are used to count pieces of data, and they count in fives. The hand spans of a group of students are measured. Hand span is an example of continuous data ...

2 3 In this paper, we discuss why researchers often choose to categorise continuous data, the assumptions required, and why it is frequently an inappropriate choice. We then provide a brief example ...