Dr. Scott is interested in studying people's level of agreement with same sex marriage. He writes a series of statements related to same sex marriage and relationships followed by the categories: strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree. What type of indicator is Dr. Scott using?
A) Ratio
B) Nominal
C) Ordinal
D) Likert scale

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Dr. Scott is using a Likert scale, which is a type of ordinal scale used to measure attitudes or opinions. The scale measures the degree of agreement or disagreement with a statement using response options such as strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. This scale does not have equal distance between categories, so it is not a ratio scale. Nominal scales are used for categorical variables with no inherent order, such as gender.

Dr Scott Is Interested in Studying People's Level of Agreement