Please discuss one of the scales of measurement. What can it be used to measure? Why is the choice of sale of measurement important in research?

Psychologist Stanley Stevens developed the four common scales of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. Each scale of measurement has properties that determine how to properly analyse the data. The properties evaluated are identity, magnitude, equal intervals and a minimum value of zero.

What is a good example of an ordinal scale?

Ordinal Examples

A student scoring 99/100 would be the 1st rank, another student scoring 92/100 would be 3rd and so on and so forth.