1. What is distinctive about an absolute scale (i.e. what kind of information does it preserve, or what kinds of transformations yield another absolute scale)?

2. What is distinctive about a ratio scale (i.e. what kind of information does it preserve, or what kinds of transformations yield another ratio scale)?

3. What is distinctive about an interval scale (i.e. what kind of information does it preserve, or what kinds of transformations yield another interval scale)?

4. What is distinctive about an ordinal scale (i.e. what kind of information does it preserve, or what kinds of transformations yield another ordinal scale)?

5. What is distinctive about a categorical scale (i.e. what kind of information does it preserve, or what kinds of transformations yield another categorical scale)?

6. How are the five scales of measurement that we cover related to one another (i.e., is one sort of scale always an instance of another sort of scale)?

7. Give two exs of something that would be measured on an absolute scale, and prepare a sentence or two about why these are good exs of this scale.

8. Give two exs of something that would be measured on a ratio scale, and prepare a sentence or two about why these are good exs of this scale.

9. Give two exs of something that would be measured on an interval scale, and prepare a sentence or two about why these are good exs of this scale.

10. Give two exs of something that would be measured on an ordinal scale, and prepare a sentence or two about why these are good exs of this scale.

11. Give two exs of something that would be measured on a categorical scale, and prepare a sentence or two about why these are good exs of this scale.