Gary Franklin is a movie critic. He invented the Franklin Scale with which he rates movies from 1 to 10 (10 being best). When asked about his scale, Mr. Franklin explained "that it is a subjective measure of movie quality. A movie with a ranking of 10 is not necessarily 10 times better than a movie with a ranking of 1, but it is better. A movie with a ranking of 5 is better than a movie with a ranking of 1, but is not as good a movie with a ranking of 10. That's all it really tells you." Based on Mr. Franklin's description, his scale is:
A) ordinal but not cardinal.
B) cardinal but not ordinal.
C) an objective standard to judge movies.
D) neither cardinal nor ordinal.

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The Franklin Scale is ordinal because it ranks movies based on their quality without any specific measurement or unit of measurement. It is not cardinal because it does not have a true zero point or standard of comparison.

Gary Franklin Is a Movie Critic