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Assignment

Below are listed some objects of varying degrees of abstraction. Suggest properties of each of these objects that can be measured by each of the four basic types of scales. There are relatively few pure interval scales found in business research. Almost all text discussions of this scale refer to the example of temperature scales. However, some attitude scales such as the Likert and Semantic Differential, are claimed to approach interval characteristics. In addition, approximate interval scales can be developed from paired comparisons and rank orders of objects. See the following A and B examples. Once, you have seen them then do the same for the object 1 shown below:

A. Store customers

Nominal - Group them by race, ethnic background, married or single status, etc.
Ordinal - Example: Rank them as very frequent buyers, frequent buyers, and infrequent buyers.
Interval - Some scale of attractiveness in which the scale is presumed to be interval (interval must be defined)
Ratio - Example: Average size of monthly purchases.

B. Voter attitudes

Nominal - Example: grouped as Republican, Democrat, Independent, and other.
Ordinal - Example: Rank of candidates in order of preference.
Interval - Likert - type scale (Likert interval must be defined)
Ratio - Example: Count of votes for various candidates in each district.

Object: 1) Consumer e-commerce attitudes. Be specific when suggesting the properties. For instance, interval/likert, if applies, it must describe the item with its specific scale.

3. From the "Ohio Lottery case", studied last week (Week 3 Assignment):

1. Answer question 4.

2. Using Exhibit 11 -3 and the case questionnaires (From Exhibit OL-3 Ohio Lottery Study Sample Questions 6A, 25, and 29), match each question to its appropriate scale type. For each scale type not represented, develop a measurement question that would be of that scale type.

4. Considering the exercise 1 of the last week (Week 3 Assignment, and Chapter 13), design a professional questionnaire to measure the content (service quality and complaints) of the three first research questions by using the appropriate scale. (You decide the amount of questions you consider could be applicable to this case).

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