What are the data types of the variables below by measurement scale?  (a) Candy brands Ted likes (b) Stock Price of GME (Game Stop Corp.) (c) Satisfaction score of AirPods Max (d) Military Rank

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You need to use Stata to look up the dataset and its variables. Use Stata Companion Textbook. (Dataset: NES. Variables: spend8, [pw=nesw].) The NES dataset contains spend8, which records the number of government policy areas where respondents think spending should be increased. Scores range from 0 (the respondent does not want to increase spending on any of the policies) to 8 (the respondent wants to increase spending on all eight policies). The NES, of course, polls a random sample of U.S. adults. In this exercise you will analyze spend8 using the mean and lincom commands. You then will draw inferences about the population mean. (Remember to specify nesw as the probability weight.) The spend8 variable has a sample mean of ______. Make sure you use [pw=nesw] so your results are nationally representative. There is a probability of .95 that spend8’s true population mean falls between a score of ______ at the low end and a score of ______ at the high end. A student researcher…

Question: Can you give an example of variable for which  the mean would not be appropriate to describe the data (that is, tell me a circumstance in which you would not want to use the mean to describe a dataset).