SOLUTION: 2. Classify each of the following as to the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.) (a) hair color of a randomly selected farmer (b) the high tem

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Question 1021440: 2. Classify each of the following as to the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.)
(a) hair color of a randomly selected farmer
(b) the high temperature in New York on a randomly selected day
(c) the length of time it takes to walk across the campus
(d) the number of phone calls made in January on your cell phone
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(a) Nominal
(b) Interval (if in Celsius or Fahrenheit)
(c) Ratio
(d) Ratio

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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a. Nominal, no ranking.
b. Interval, strictly speaking, since our usual temperature zero scale is artificial but the interval between 10 and 20 degrees is the same interval as between 60 and 70 degrees
c. Ratio data. One could argue that zero doesn't exist here, but treatment of time by anybody using this would be as ratio data.
d. Ratio data.