There are four levels of measurement. What is nominal measurement?
A) Classification of characteristics into mutually exclusive categories
B) Ranking of objects based on their relative standing on an attribute
C) Indicating not only the ranking of objects but the amount of distance between them
D) Distinguished from interval measurement by having a rational zero point
A
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