Levels of Measurement-Intro to Stats

Imagine you're a master chef at a bustling pizzeria. You have 10 pizza ovens in front of you. Can you tell us the level of measurement for the temperatures inside these ovens?

• Is it a nominal-level measurement?

• Or, could it be an ordinal-level measurement?

• Maybe it's an interval-level measurement?

• Or is it a ratio-level measurement?

Imagine you're in a physician’s office, surrounded by various categories of magazines (sports, women’s, health, men’s, news). What type of measurement would you use to categorize them?

• nominal-level measurement

• ordinal-level measurement

• interval-level measurement

• ratio-level measurement

Imagine you're a detective and you've just cracked a case! The Postal Office reveals that 4,231 individuals have a zip code of 4231. What type of scale is this?

• Nominal Scale

• Ordinal Scale

• Interval Scale

• Ratio Scale

Imagine you're part of the Sportsfest committee and you've just posted the names of the first 50 runners to cross the finish line, in the order they finished. What type of scale have you used?

• Nominal Scale

• Ordinal Scale

• Interval Scale

• Ratio Scale

Imagine you're a meteorologist and you've just compiled a list of temperatures in degrees Celsius for the entire month of May. Exciting, isn't it?

• Nominal Scale

• Ordinal Scale

• Interval Scale

• Ratio Scale

Imagine you're a detective and you're investigating the mystery of the 'Giant Students'. Your first clue is the height of these students in inches. What type of scale would you use to record this data?

• Nominal Scale

• Ordinal Scale

• Interval Scale

• Ratio Scale

Guess the type of data that represents a 'Brand of Toothpaste'?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

Imagine you're a math wizard and you've just completed a magical math test! What type of scores would you have?

• NOMINAL

• ORDINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

What color is your karate belt, grasshopper?

• Is it nominal?

• Or perhaps, ordinal?

• Could it be interval?

• Or is it ratio?

Let's play a fun game! Can you guess the WEIGHT OF AN OBJECT?

• Is it NOMINAL?

• Could it be ORDINAL?

• Maybe it's INTERVAL?

• Or is it RATIO?