What are the four levels of measurement?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should identify and explain:
A) Nominal-Level Measurement - the lowest, least precise level of measurement for which there is a difference in type only among the categories of a variable.
B) Ordinal-Level Measurement - a level of measurement that identifies a difference among categories of a variable and allows the categories to be rank ordered as well.
C) Interval-Level Measurement - a level of measurement that identifies differences among variable attributes, ranks categories, and measures distance between categories, but there is no true zero.
D) Ratio-Level Measurement - the highest, most precise level of measurement; variable attributes can be rank ordered, the distance between them precisely measured, and there is an absolute zero.
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