Professor Harris is constructing a demographic questionnaire for use in a research project.One question asks students to report how politically conservative they are.It includes a 7-point scale where 1 is "not at all conservative" and 7 is "extremely conservative." This is an example of a/an:
A)nominal scale.
B)ordinal scale.
C)interval scale.
D)ratio scale.

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This is an example of an interval scale because it uses numbers on a scale where the intervals between the numbers are consistent, but there is no true zero point indicating the absence of the characteristic being measured (in this case, political conservatism).

Professor Harris Is Constructing a Demographic Questionnaire for Use in a Research