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Properties of the Abstract Number System
Psychological Examples

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Nominal
Nominal scales are the lowest scales of measurement. Numbers are assigned to categories as "names". Which number is assigned to which category is completely arbitrary. Therefore, the only number property of the nominal scale of measurement is identity. The number gives us the identity of the category assigned.

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