ratio or ordinal

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Nov 20, 2020, 4:02:26 AM11/20/20

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which scale of measurement can be taken

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Nov 20, 2020, 4:07:22 AM11/20/20

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Hi,

It has an ordinal scale of measurement Because it does not have numeric properties like we can not add or subtract them.

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Nitin Jha

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Nov 20, 2020, 4:09:28 AM11/20/20

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Thank you for the clarification.

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Nov 20, 2020, 4:10:40 AM11/20/20

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age is ordinal variable

but weight ?

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Nov 20, 2020, 6:03:30 AM11/20/20

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If we're going by the picture in the original post, yes, both are ordinal.

Both have order and don't fit into numeric categories

So, why not?

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