Cassidy is researching the impacts of eating breakfast on college students who have classes prior to 9 am. To do this, she issued a Likert scale questionnaire to the students, with a scale of 1 through 10 to answer a series of 20 questions. What is the type of measurement scale?
A) ratio
B) nominal
C) ordinal
D) interval

Question

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The Likert scale is an ordinal scale because it ranks responses in order but does not specify the exact difference between the ranks.

Cassidy Is Researching the Impacts of Eating Breakfast on College