Discuss the four levels of measurement; nominal ordinal, interval, ratio. Rank them in order from least specific to highest precision
What will be an ideal response?
Nominal indicates a difference among categories, ordinal measures indicate a difference among categories and the categories can be ordered or ranked, interval builds on the first two measures and specifies the distance between categories, ratio measures build on the other levels plus have a true zero. A true zero means a score of zero really
indicates a value of zero or nothing.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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