Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, & Ratio Data Help?
Can someone tell me if I am right.
a) amount of rain that falls in Phoenix AZ, in January - Ratio
b) amount of flour in a chicken pot-pie - Ratio
c) number of educators in each daycare room - Interval
d) languages spoken by CUNY college students - Nominal
e) weight of men who attend Weight Watchers - Ratio
f) movies ratings - Ordinal
g) how often the toddlers of a daycare use the restroom in a day - Don’t know this one
h) Fahrenheit temperatures of CUNY QC college dorms - Interval
i) number of pages in the NYC telephone book - Interval
j) strength categories of hurricanes (1, 2, …, 5) - Ordinal
k) Zip code of Queens residents - Nominal
l) scores on the GRE Exam (range is from 200 to 800) - Interval
m) number of defective syringes in batches of 500 made by Safety Co. - Ratio
n) Calendar Year - Interval
o) rating scale of 1 to 5, representing strongly dislike, dislike, neutral, like, strongly like - Ordinal
p) percentage of fat (up to 2 decimals) in your preferred ice-cream - Ratio
q) Classification of cars from size point of view as subcompact, compact, standard, luxury. - Ordinal
Thanks
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a Ratio
b Ratio
c Ratio no matter how you count zero is zero.
d. Ratio no languages is a true zero
e Ratio 0 lb = 0 kg
f Ordinal
g Ratio zero visits is zero visits
h Interval no common zero but linked by formula
i Ratio has zero pages no matter how you count
j Ordinal
k Nominal
l Can’t comment, do not know anything about the GRE exam nor how it is marked
agree the rest