Yeah that's a question online in your stats class. Read it more carefully. They are asking if Major (area of study) is a quantitative or categorical type of data
Answer: Categorical.
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No It's continuous variable a that also falls under the category of 'ratio level of measurement'
Ratio level of measurement is the highest in statistics.
Technically is an ordinal level measurement - because the options imply a hierarchy (i.e low to high levels of your variable of interest), but we cannot say that the difference between each level is precisely the same as you would be able to with an interval measurement. There is some controversy over this though, and it is still often used like an interval measurement in statistical tests, although this might not really be appropriate.
Examples of ratio level of measurement are age, weight, and amount of money.
It would be a nominal level of measurement. Each choice would be unique but there is no value attached to them