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| Aug 15, 2017 at 7:20 | comment | added | Comfort Eagle | It doesn't follow that a variable is cardinal just because an integer is assigned to it. The question of level of measurement is conceptual and concerns what transformations makes sense. My example is chosen to be ordinal on purpose. A social hierarchy is clearly an ordinal scaled variable, since it doesn't make sense to compute it's mean, but it's median. | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 4:35 | comment | added | whuber♦ | How exactly is this a counterexample? | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 2:20 | history | answered | jds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |