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 by Denise Harvey and David M. Lane

Prerequisites • Chapter 1: Levels of Measurement

The Board of Trustees at a university commissioned a top management-consulting firm to address the admission processes for academic and athletic programs. The consulting firm wrote a report discussing the trade-off between maintaining academic and athletic excellence. One of their key findings was:

What do you think? Based on what you have learned in this chapter about measurement scales, does it make sense to compare SAT scores using percentages? Why or why not?

Think about this before continuing:

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