> I hesitate to chime in here because this subject was discussed at length
(great
> length) a couple of years ago on this list. But, I can't resist pointing
out
> that the relevance of scales to statistics is controversial, at least.
In a
> nutshell, although many psychologists follow my hero S.S. Stevens in
> restricting the use of parametric statistics to interval and ratio data,
> statisticians do not. And they should know.
> don
> Donald McBurney Who has dropped the discussion of scales of measurement
from
> his methods book, which makes it a "bad book" in Dave Bennett's view. ;-)
Really Don? ALL statisticians. I think not.
And I'll excuse you from writing a bad book just this once. ;-)
Dave
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