Question

Insurance companies are rated by several rating agencies. The Fitch 20-point scale is AAA, AA+, AA, AA–, A+, A, A–, BBB+, BBB, BBB–, BB+, BB, BB–, B+, B, B–, CCC+, CCC, CCC–, DD. (a) What level of measurement does this scale use?

Answer 1

Answer:

The ordinal measurement

Explanation:

In this question, we are concerned with knowing the level of measurement used by this scale

The correct answer to this is the ordinal measurement.

What the ordinal scale does is that it places events in order but it does not take into account the fact that the intervals of the scale need to be equal using some sets of rule.

It only places the intervals into groups of subdivisions without having a rule that uses an interval to place members of each subdivision into their class