AQ1.4: Question no. 3

[MANMAY SINGH]

here in this question I just want to clarify my doubts on this thing:

If we make the intervals more accurate like 15-30, 30-45,45-60 and 60-75 then, will it become an Interval type of measurement scale ? or can we also include it to interval or ratio scale as 30 mins of gaming is twice as 15 mins of gaming ?

Please elaborate with examples.

[CG]

Even if you provide equal-sized ranges (15-30, 30-45,45-60 etc ..) to choose from, it will still be ordinal.

Why?

A = 15-30

B = 30-45

C = 45-60

Suppose Student 1 choses A because he/she spends 20 minutes playing video games; Student 2 choses B since he/she spends 32 minutes playing video games and Student 3 choses C because he spends 50 minutes on a video game. Is the distance between A and B equal to the distance between B and C or A and C? No.

Hence usually when a variable can take on a range of values, it would be incorrect to say that the distance between them is the same. Distances between values must be the same on an ordinal scale.

[CG]

Last sentence should have been "Distances between values must be the same on an interval scale."

[MANMAY SINGH]

Thank you it helped me a lot :) .