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If you mean qualitative and quantitative data, then data would be dealing with numbers to describe a statistical analysis whereas qualitative represents things that cannot be expressed as numbers such as color.
Not if the attribute recorded in qualitative rather than quantitative. If you ask a group of people what their favourite fruit is, a mean of their answers has no meaning.
No, not always. It depends on the type of data you collect. If it is quantitative data, you will be able to calculate a mean. If it is qualitative data, a mean can't be calculated but you can describe the data in terms of a mode.
It is qualitative data such as male or female, red hair or black. This different than quantitative data such as inches of rain or gallons of milk.
A Qualitative observation is an observation that is found using data without numbers. (hence the term quality instead of quantity which is quantitative) Ex: the dog is brown This orange has a peel People har hair