Is my Nominal/Ordinal/Interval homework correct?

[mathdummy101]

Is this correct?

The following 4 are NOMINAL

Type of cars stolen
Seriousness of offense
The numbers of an inmates clothing
Racial categories

The following 3 are INTERVAL

Amount of money stolen in dollars
Years of sentence length
Number of stolen cars

The following 2 are ORDINAL

Alphabetical listing of inmate names
Fear of crime (a lot, some, none).

 

[Dr.Peterson]

There's one I would definitely disagree with. Some others might be debatable, but I agree with them. (One I think doesn't even belong in this list.)

What definitions were you given for each?

 

[pka]

The following 4 are NOMINAL
Type of cars stolen
Seriousness of offense
The numbers of an inmates clothing
Racial categories

The following 3 are INTERVAL
Amount of money stolen in dollars
Years of sentence length
Number of stolen cars

The following 2 are ORDINAL
Alphabetical listing of inmate names
Fear of crime (a lot, some, none).

I am always reluctant to answer definitional questions. Much of the time someone will post: Oh but Prof. X taught me ... .
So here what I taught my students.
Nominal is naming the things.
Cardinal is counting the things named.
Ordinal is ordering the counts made.
Now you must tell me do your examples fit?

 

[Dr.Peterson]

This is presumably based on the classification of Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio, as discussed here, but lacking Ratio. There are various other classifications I've heard of (such as Categorical, Discrete, and Continuous).

Often these can be somewhat subjective, and good arguments can be given for different choices. What is more meaningful than one's answers is the reasons given for them, applying whatever definitions were given.

I will say now that the one I disagree with is "seriousness of offense", which surely can be ordered. But it is possible that in context, this was defined in a different way than I am imagining.

And an "alphabetical listing of names" is not a type of data at all; it is a way to organize data, in which the ordering is not strictly meaningful, so I wouldn't include it here.