The participants in a research study self-report their sleep quality levels by choosing the response option that best characterizes their average sleep quality per night from the following response options: 1 = extremely low sleep quality, 2 - very low sleep quality, 3 - low sleep quality, 4 = extremely high sleep quality. Which measurement scale is being used to classify sleep quality?

This is a Categorical variable and the measurement scale is ordinal scale.

Step-by-step explanation:

The measurement scale that is being used to classify sleep is the ordinal measurement. In this question, the variable that is called sleep quality is a categorical variable. categorical variables are variables that have the data representing groups. sleep quality has been given this categorical order extremely low very low low and extreme high.

The ordinal scale is a scale that denotes order it has all variables in a specific order.

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