Question

Cassidy is researching the impacts of eating breakfast on college students who have classes prior to 9 am. To do this, she issued a Likert scale questionnaire to the students, with a scale of 1 through 10 to answer a series of 20 questions. What is the type of measurement scale

Answer 1

Interval scale

Explanation:

In statistics, there are 4 types of measurement scales namely;

Nominal scales, interval scales, Ordinal scales and Ratio scales.

Now, in this question Cassidy is trying to research the impacts of eating breakfast on college students who have classes prior to 9 am.

This has to do with order as it deals with people who have breakfast before 9 a.m. It also deals with the exact differences in the various answers on the scale of 1 - 10 for each student student in the research for the 20 questions.

This is exactly what the interval measurement scale is all about interval scale deals with order and exact differences in values.

Thus, the scale used is an interval scale.