Final answer:
The levels of measurement for the data types listed in a physician’s intake form are temperature measured as interval, age as ratio, allergies as nominal, and change in health left scale of -5 to 5 as ordinal. Thus, the answer is Option B) Ratio, Ratio, Nominal, Ordinal.
Step-by-step explanation:
The level of measurement for the given data types in the physician’s intake form can be identified as follows:
- Temperature: This is measured on an interval scale because, although we can measure the difference in temperatures, there is no true zero point. (0° does not mean 'no heat').
- Age: Age is measured on a ratio scale since it has a meaningful zero point (age 0) and we can say that someone who is 20 years old is twice as old as someone who is 10 years old.
- Allergies: These are classified on a nominal scale as they consist of categories (e.g., pollen, nuts, latex) without a natural order or rank.
- Change in health: The -5 to 5 scale to measure health changes indicates an ordinal scale because although there is an order, the intervals between the numbers may not necessarily represent the same magnitude of change.
Therefore, the correct answer would be Option B) Ratio, Ratio, Nominal, Ordinal.