The United States Department of Homeland Security Threat Advisory System measures threat as severe, high, elevated, guarded, or low.In this system, threat is:
A) continuous and ratio.
B) continuous and interval.
C) discrete and interval.
D) discrete and ordinal.

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The DHS Threat Advisory System measures threat using a discrete scale (severe, high, elevated, guarded, or low) and places them in a specific order or ranking (ordinal) rather than on a continuous or interval scale.