Question

Exercises: Classify the following 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. Your score on the first statistics test as a measure of your knowledge of statistic 4. 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. 5. Times for swimmers to complete a 50-meter race 6. Months of the year Meskerm, Tikimit... 7. Socioeconomic status of a family when classified as low, middle and upper classes. & Blood type of individuals, A, B, AB and O. 9. 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. 10. Regions numbers of Ethiopia 11. The number of students in a college 12. The net wages of a group of workers​

Answer 1

The measurement systems can be classified into different types of scales based on their levels of measurement such as nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Examples of these measurement systems include checking account numbers, checking account balances, test scores, attitudes toward abortion, swim race times, months of the year, socioeconomic status, blood types, pollen counts, region numbers, number of students in a college, and net wages of workers.

Step-by-step explanation:

The measurement systems can be classified into different types of scales based on their levels of measurement. The four types of scales are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.

1. Nominal scale: Your checking account number as a name for your account.
2. Ratio scale: Your checking account balance as a measure of the amount of money you have in that account.
3. Interval scale: Your score on the first statistics test as a measure of your knowledge of statistics.
4. Ordinal scale: A response to the statement 'Abortion is a woman's right', where different options are assigned numbers to measure attitude toward abortion.
5. Interval scale: Times for swimmers to complete a 50-meter race.
6. Nominal scale: Months of the year.
7. Ordinal scale: Socioeconomic status of a family when classified as low, middle, and upper classes.
8. Nominal scale: Blood type of individuals (A, B, AB, O).
9. Ordinal scale: Pollen counts provided as numbers between 1 and 10.
10. Nominal scale: Region numbers of Ethiopia.
11. Ratio scale: The number of students in a college.
12. Ratio scale: The net wages of a group of workers.