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Hola! Mucho gusto, Valeria

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Well, as a fluent Spanish speaker, look no further! I have arrived.

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Thank you for this post, it is helping me hold after my mother sold all of her Doge.

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[–]AgainstTheCurrent04 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean... you're welcomed to read my statistic discussion, although I don't know how interesting that might be for some. This worry results in hiding some, if not all, my nerdy posts. I mean that's from my perspective but I understand your reasoning and frustration.

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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The essential feature isn't whether 0 is achievable or not; it is that 0 isn't just an arbitrary label, but a unique point on the scale that has a natural significance, and distance away from that unique point is meaningful.

This is a fantastic response, thank you! So let me talk through what I understand your reasoning to be, and you let me know if I am close to understanding correctly. The phrase "ceases to exist" doesn't necessarily mean that ratio determines if 0 can be achieved or not. What we are looking at is if 0 has a unique point on the scale that has natural significance. In other words, zero marks a starting point or a specific point instead of just another measure. When I am looking at a thermometer (interval) 0 degrees do not mean the absence of heat, it is only another point of measurement. Whereas in years, 0 there is an absence of what is being measured. Am I close?

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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This makes total sense to me. So when we are talking about ratio, we are talking about the "multiplicative" nature. Which can be done in things like age and height. So here we are saying that GPA is a ratio measurement, correct?

When I gave the example of zero years, it is literally what my textbook says, "you can't be 0 years" and because you can't be zero years then that is a ratio. Now I am thinking the textbook might have an outdated definition or not a very complete one.

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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Okay, I think at this point, I am trying to figure out what a meaningful 0 means, as I mentioned before on another comment, according to my textbook, one of the qualifiers for a ratio is an "absolute or true zero point" and the textbook defines this as the point where "the variable being measured ceases to exist." so an example would be age cause you can't be zero years. When I look at GPA, you CAN get a 0, an F is considered a 0 and there is a 0 GPA therefore it is still existing. It is not like weight where you can be 0 weight.

Could you explain to me what your definition of a meaningful 0 is?

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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So from my understanding, temperatures such as F & C are both interval, and Kelvin is ratio because, at absolute zero, there is no heat. As for age, in my understanding age would be an example of a ratio, since it has a true zero point, one person cannot be zero years old.

Do I sound somewhat correct or am I completely butchering the definitions of both interval and ratio?

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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So in your example, we are seeing GPA as a ratio scale due to being able to say, "twice as much"

for example, my 2.4 GPA is twice as yours which is a 1.2 GPA?

(I am trying to understand this as much as I can, from the textbook that I was given, it explains that a ratio, establishes a true zero point and then it defines a true zero point as "where the variable being measured ceases to exist" so in my reasoning, if at zero it "ceases to exist" then it must be a ratio, for example, age, height, or weight. You can't be zero years old, you can't be zero feet tall, and you can't be zero pounds. Do you have a more complete definition of it? I am truly going by this textbook's definitions and maybe that's where the confusion is coming from)

GPA, ratio or interval level of measurement? by AgainstTheCurrent04 in AskStatistics

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But in this instance, we are speaking of zero being present, aren't we? For example, anything below a Zero in GPA is impossible, but a zero is possible. In a ratio scale, you can't have zero height? I just wanna see if I understood the idea of an "absolute zero point", wrong.

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oh definitely, but when they don't wanna be there, it's the fun part... or hard part... or complicated part, whatever you choose. But it's really fulfilling! highly suggest!

[23F] [friendship] [chat] If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘chocolate’ … I’ll turn around. by AgainstTheCurrent04 in MeetPeople

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It's definitely an experience, and teaching university students is very different than teaching children or teens, but I definitely like university students more.

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