You are asked to answer a question about the quality of your nurse manager's interpersonal interactions with colleagues and patients as part of her annual evaluation. The options are poor, fair, strong. You know this means:
A) The variable is poorly measured.
B) The variable is at an interval level.
C) The variable is at a nominal level.
D) The variable is at an ordinal level.

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The options "poor," "fair," and "strong" indicate an ordinal level of measurement, where the categories have a meaningful order but the intervals between them are not necessarily equal.

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