The following questions present a list of different attributes and rules for assigning numbers to
objects. Try to classify the different measurement systems into one of the four types of scales.
1. Your checking account number as a name for your account.
2. Your checking account balance as a measure of the amount of money you have in that
account.
3. The order in which you were eliminated in a spelling bee as a measure of your spelling
ability.
4. Your score on the first statistics test as a measure of your knowledge of statistics.
5. Your score on an individual intelligence test as a measure of your intelligence.
6. The distance around your forehead measured with a tape measure as a measure of your
intelligence.
7. A response to the statement "Abortion is a woman's right" where "Strongly Disagree" = 1,
"Disagree" = 2, "No Opinion" = 3, "Agree" = 4, and "Strongly Agree" = 5, as a measure of
attitude toward abortion.
8. Times for swimmers to complete a 50-meter race
9. Months of the year Meskerm, Tikimit…
10. Socioeconomic status of a family when classified as low, middle and upper classes.
11. Blood type of individuals, A, B, AB and O.
12. Pollen counts provided as numbers between 1 and 10 where 1 implies there is almost no
pollen and 10 that it is rampant, but for which the values do not represent an actual counts of
grains of pollen.
13. Regions numbers of Ethiopia (1, 2, 3 etc.)
14. The number of students in a college;
15. the net wages of a group of workers;
1. Nominal scale (Name)
2. Ratio scale (Measure of amount)
3. Ordinal scale (Order of elimination)
4. Interval scale (Score on a test)
5. Interval scale (Score on an intelligence test)
6. Ratio scale (Measurement of distance)
7. Interval scale (Attitude scale)
8. Ratio scale (Time measurement)
9. Nominal scale (Names of months)
10. Ordinal scale (Classification of socioeconomic status)
11. Nominal scale (Blood type categories)
12. Interval scale (Pollen count scale)
13. Nominal scale (Region numbers)
14. Ratio scale (Count of students)
15. Ratio scale (Net wages)