A study was done on the campus of a major state institution to measure attitudes of students towards the recent fee increase. One question asks respondents to rank the five fees they are willing to pay from 1=most willing to 5=least willing. This is scaled as a(n) Computer fee
Library fee
Parking fee
Student Center fee
Kinesiology Building fee
A) nominal scale.
B) ordinal scale.
C) interval scale.
D) ratio scale.
E) None of the above.

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The ranking of fees from most willing to least willing represents an ordinal scale, as it indicates order but not the magnitude of difference between ranks.

A Study Was Done on the Campus of a Major