Types of Scales Nominal Scale Has Assignment Only (Political Party) Ordinal Has Assignment, Order (Rank Order of Finish in a Race) Interval Has Assignment, Order, Equal Intervals (Temperature) Hybrid Ordinally-Interval Scale Like an ordinal scale, but researcher pretends it is an interval scale (e.g., assumes 1 to 7 scale is an interval scale); commonly used in questionnaires Ratio Has Assignment, Order, Equal Intervals, Absolute Zero (Number of Cars)
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