Determine the type of measurement scale used in each on the following situations.A supervisor ranks his employees from least to most productive.Students rate their statistic teacher’s teaching ability using a scale of 1 (awful) to 10 (magnificent).A sociologist classifies sexual preference as 0 (heterosexual), 1 (homosexual), 2 (bisexual), 3 (asexual), and 4 (other).A psychologist measures the time to complete a problem-solving task.A social worker classifies her client’s marital status as 1 (single), 2 (married), 3 (divorced), or 4 (other)

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Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

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Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

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Determine the type of measurement scale used in each on the following situations.

A supervisor ranks his employees from least to most productive.
Students rate their statistic teacher’s teaching ability using a scale of 1 (awful) to 10 (magnificent).
A sociologist classifies sexual preference as 0 (heterosexual), 1 (homosexual), 2 (bisexual), 3 (asexual), and 4 (other).
A psychologist measures the time to complete a problem-solving task.
A social worker classifies her client’s marital status as 1 (single), 2 (married), 3 (divorced), or 4 (other)

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In statistics, measurement scales are used to describe information about the classification of the assigned variables. It provides the information in numerical form, which is easier to compute and analyze in research. Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio are the four basic measurement scales used in statistics.