What is meant by scales in measurement? Describe different types of scales.

Statistics are part of our everyday life. All one needs to do is examine the baseball boxscores in the newspaper or their bank statement (hopefully, not in the newspaper) for examples of statistics. Statistics in and of themselves are not anxiety producing. For example, most individuals (particularly those familiar with baseball) will not experience anxiety when a player's batting average is displayed on the television screen. The "batting average" is a statistic but as we know what it means and how to interpret it, we do not find it particularly frightening. The idea of statistics is often anxiety provoking simply because it is a tool with which we are unfamiliar. Therefore, let us examine what is meant by the term statistic; Kuzma (1984) provides a formal definition:

A body of techniques and procedures dealing with the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information that can be stated numerically. Perhaps an example will clarify this definition. Say, for example, we wanted to know the level of job satisfaction nurses experience working on various units within a particular hospital (ie. psychiatric, cardiac care, obstetrics, etc.). The first thing we would need to do is collect some data. We might have all the nurses on a particular day complete a job satisfaction questionnaire. We could ask such _______ ________ _______ ________ ____ _________ ___ ______.
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