Psychology Levels of Measurement

What level of measurement? Rating happiness on a scale of 1-10. In scale data there is no standardised value for the difference from one score to the next

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

What level of measurement? Age measured in years

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

What level of measurement is being used? Temperature in degrees celsius measured on a thermometer

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

What is the level of measurement? A teacher records the eye colour of each of her students.

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

What level of measurement? The teacher records the letter grade that a student receives on their last psychology test

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

What level of measurement? A researcher takes the temperature in degrees C of participants during the course of an investigation

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

Which level of measurement? A participant rates the attractiveness of faces on a scale of 1-10

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

Which level of measurement? A researcher investigates whether there is a difference between the under 30s and over 30s on voting intention

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

Which level of measurement? People rate themselves out of ten in terms of their overall levels of happiness

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal

Which level of measurement? People place themselves into one of three categories, Very confident, neither confident or not confident and not confident.

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Nominal