Joel Best is a professor of sociology and criminal
justice at the University of Delaware. This essay is
excerpted from _Damned Lies and Statistics:
Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians, and
Activists_, just published by the University of
California Press
Telling the Truth About
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The textbooks say that a ratio scale has the properties of an interval
scale plus a true zero point. This implies that any scale that has a true
zero point should have the cardinal property of an interval scale;
