Many schools rank their graduates each year from highest to lowest. In fact, at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland the students line up for graduation based on their class ranking (i.e., everyone knows who is first and last!). Graduates wind up with scores such as 14 or 131. Such a scale is one example of a(n) _________ scale.

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The correct answer is ordinal scale because it involves ranking or ordering of items or individuals based on some attribute or characteristic, without specifying the exact difference in the attribute between the ranks.

Many Schools Rank Their Graduates Each Year from Highest to Lowest