On a(n) ________ scale, data are ranked from first to last according to some criterion, and the distance between points on the scale are not specified.
A) nominal
B) interval
C) ratio
D) ordinal

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An ordinal scale is used for data ranking where the order or position of data points is important, but the distance between them is not necessarily equal or specified. For example, rank ordering the top 10 students in a class according to their grade point average. The difference between the first and second ranked student is not necessarily the same as the difference between the ninth and tenth ranked student.

On A(n) ________ Scale, Data Are Ranked from First to Last