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Explain four types of scales

      

Explain four types of scales

  

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a) Nominal scale
In this scale numbers are assigned between clusters of respondents’ views, objects or other items being studied. Numbers do not indicate orders or magnitude. In this scale the variable sex has a scale of two levels 1 and 2 where 1 may represent female while 2 represent males which is nominal or categorical . The variable political party has a similar scale 1 to 3.
b) Ordinal scale
Here, numbers, order, objects, clusters of views along aconitum. Numbers indicate orders only; they do not indicate equal intervals between numbers. For example, on a scale of 1 to 20, the distance between 10 to 15 points is not the same as the distance between 15 and 20
c) Interval scale: Has numerically equal distance on the scale on the property being measured. For example thermometer scale where a 10 point difference has the same meaning anywhere along the scale. The scale has no absolute zero. It is an arbitrary zero which does not represent total absence of the property being measured. You cannot speak about ratios e.g. we cannot say that 40 degree centigrade is half as hot as 80 degree.
d) Ratio: This one represents the characteristic of interval scale and all other proceeding scales. In addition to these, it has an absolute or trues zero point and this means that we can talk about ratio. A true zero point is the point corresponding to the absence of the thing being measured e.g. 0 distance or we can for example say that 10 second is twice as long as 5 second.

NatalieR answered the question on June 6, 2022 at 10:24


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