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Nominal scales-name (example: gender, race, etc) where the subject falls into a category, but one category is not considered to be higher or lower than another

Ordinal-an example is a likert scale (ie: rate how happy you are on a scale of 1 to 5). Someone who rates a 5 would be considered to be happier than someone who rates a 1, but as a researcher you couldn't say that they are 5 times happier than the 1.

Cardinal scales have an absolute zero in them and you can make quantitative comparisons between results. Weight is an example of a cardinal measurement, as is age.

2007-01-26 12:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by ambr123 5 · 4 0

Ordinal Scale Definition

2016-12-08 18:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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What are some examples of nominal, ordinal, and cardinal scales? Thank you?

2015-08-07 00:58:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Cardinal Scale

2016-10-30 10:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nominal generally derives from name. A nominal quantity (e.g., length, diameter, volume, voltage, value) is generally the quantity according to which some item has been named or is generally referred to. Such a nominal value may have no real relation to the item being refered to. For example, a type of battery that has an actual voltage of 1.62 V – but is commonly called a "1.5 volt battery" – has a nominal voltage of 1.5 V

Commonly, ordinal numbers, or ordinals for short, are numbers used to denote the position in an ordered sequence: first, second, third, fourth, etc., whereas a cardinal number says "how many there are": one, two, three, four, etc.
An ordinal scale defines a total preorder of objects; the scale values themselves have a total order; names may be used like "bad", "medium", "good"; if numbers are used they are only relevant up to strictly monotonically increasing transformations (order isomorphism). See also level of measurement.

In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set. While for finite sets the size is given by a natural number - the number of elements - cardinal numbers (cardinality) can also classify degrees of infinity. On one hand, a proper subset A of an infinite set S may have the same cardinality as S. On the other hand, perhaps also counterintuitively, not all infinite objects are of the same size. There is a formal characterization of how some infinite objects are strictly smaller than other infinite objects.
In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of the "number of elements of the set". There are two approaches to cardinality – one which compares sets directly using bijections and injections, and another which uses cardinal numbers.

2007-01-26 12:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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Actually, "nominal" isn't a scale at all; that's the essential difference. Nominal data is data that has no inherent order or ranking. Some examples: birthplace, gender, eye color, favorite pizza topping. Ordinal data is ranked/ordered, but not evenly or "objectively" scaled. The most common example is the so-called "Likert" (or "Likert-type") scale, which are responses of 1 through 5 where 1 means something like "very unlikely" and 5 means "highly likely," or 1 means "very unfavorable" and 5 means "highly favorable," etc. §

2016-04-10 21:10:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

nominal scales
yes / no
yes very much / yes somewhat / don't know / no somewhat / no
ordinal scales
first second third fourth etc
cardinal scales
1 2 3 4 etc

2007-01-26 12:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 1 0

For nominal scale can dwarfs, giants and the normal people be used as example?

2017-03-17 17:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by Ike 1 · 0 0

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