In: Operations Management
Indicate whether the following measures use a nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio scale:
(3) Rank the following according to your preferences:
__Tide __Wisk ___Surf
__Cheer ___Bold
(4) What is the level of education for the head of household?
__Some high school __High school graduate
__Some college __College graduate and/or graduate work
(5) What is your age? __
✓ measuring scales are the important tools to measure the datas in a research, study, survey and other reporting work. Nominal scales are used to label the variables, that doesn't have any quantitative number/value. For example: male, female
Ordinal scale helps to understand the feelings and level of emotions. For example; happiness, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, etc.
An interval scale is used when variables can be quantified, with a specific difference in the range of values. But, it has no definite zero so it's interpretation become difficult. For example: frequency of the students taking marks in a subject. 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, etc. It can't be used to calculate rations and is only suitable when addition and subtraction is applied for the calculation.
Ratio scale helps to quantify the variables, with a definite zero and support ratio calculation with definite values. For example: height of a person, age of a person, etc.
(3) Rank the following according to your preferences:
__Tide __Wisk ___Surf
__Cheer ___Bold
✓ nominal scale
(4) What is the level of education for the head of household?
__Some high school __High school graduate
__Some college __College graduate and/or graduate work
✓ ordinal scale
(5) What is your age? __
✓ ratio scale.
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