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Listed below are a number of exercises designed to familiarize students with the classification of

measures using Stevens' classification system. For each of the measures listed, determine what
scale of measurement most closely approximates the measure as described. Some of the
examples are deliberately ambiguous.

1. the number of questions asked by a customer during a simulated encounter with a


salesperson answer

2. the religious group that one affiliates with answer

3. the time it takes to complete a checking task answer

4. the score on a 35-item scale of ambivalence answer

5. the rank of a person's salary within the company answer

6. rank order based on IQ score in the sample answer

7. the square footage of each participant's house or apartment answer

8. the size of the cerebellum expressed as a volume answer

9. the number of frustrated comments made during a laboratory negotiation task answer

10. the time it takes for a couple to resolve a custody issue during court ordered mediation
answer

11. score on the Beck Depression Inventory (a pencil and paper depression scale) answer

12. ratings of anger shown by those involved in courtroom testimony answer

13. the number of pound lost during a six-week diet answer

14. the proportion of weight lost during a six-week diet answer

15. the heart rate of the participant answer

16. the percent shift in heart rate over baseline during an emotionally demanding task answer

17. the percent of errors made on a classification task answer

18. the number of false alarm responses in a monitoring task answer

19. the types of gramatical errors made in a writing sample answer

20. one's ice cream preference answer

21. how quickly a person gives up on an impossible task that looks like it should be possible
answer
22. a student's SAT score answer

23. the percentile rank from an achievement test answer

24. the type of categorization errors in a sorting task answer

25. the pattern of scores on the MMPI personality inventory answer

26. the age at which one went on his or her first date answer

27. the number of children in your family answer

28. the score on an anxiety sensitivity scale answer

29. whether one has a pet answer

30. the teacher's rankings of cooperativeness in the classroom answer

1. ratio
2. nominal
3. ratio
4. interval
5. ordinal
6. rtaio
7. ratio
8. ratio
9. ratio
10. ratio
11. interval
12. interval or ordinal
13. ratio
14. ratio
15. ratio
16. ratio
17. ratio
18. ratio
19. nominal
20. nominal
21. ratio
22. interval
23. ordinal
24. nominal
25. nominal
26. ratio
27. ratio
28. interval
29. nominal
30. ordinal

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