Stats

Question 1

Magnitude, Equal Intervals, Absolute Zero; Ex. Salary, Weight, Age. You can talk about “twice as much”

Answer 1

Ratio

Question 2

Magnitude, Equal intervals; No Absolute Zero. Ex.40 degrees is not twice as much as much 20 degrees

Answer 2

Interval

Question 3

Magnitude only; Ex. Ranking; distance between 1 and 2, may be different than the distance between 2 and 3 .; Ex.2 ratings of happiness- only tells you the relative happiness

Answer 3

Ordinal

Question 4

None of the three properties; Classification, putting observations into categories. Sex, nationality, category names. Can assign numbers to categories, but they are just identifiers

Answer 4

Nominal