Education should be treated as a nominal scale because the years spent between two grades are not same for all the grades. i.e. difference between Jr. College and Sr. College isn't same as between graduation and post-graduation.
A person's age is a ratio scale because we can say person A's age is twice older than person B's. Equal difference ages on a ratio scale all have exactly the same size. Moreover in age, 0 (zero)...
Ordinal data has an inherent order, i.e. ranking, in its possible values. For example 'poor, fair, good, excellent' is ordinal becaused there is an assumption that the four possible values are higher...
Ordinal data is data that can be ranked, but you can not say anything about how far apart the data entries are. You can count and order it but not measure difference between data entries. For example...
are categorical data where there is logical ordering to the categories, eg,1 = strongly agree,2 = Agree,3 = Neutral,4 = Disagree,5 = Strongly disagree.It is data that only show their relationship to...
Age group voting patterns in the last presidential election would be an example of nominal data. Take the age groups and describe if they tended to vote Democrat, Republican, Independent, and so on....