When Pope John Paul II died in April 2005, there was some discussion of ages of cardinals throughout the world, in terms of who would be a good candidate for successor, and who could vote for the successor, because only those under 80 years of age were eligible to vote.
a. How would we report the data values if age is treated as a quantitative variable?
b. How would we report the data values if age is treated as a categorical variable?