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miss-labeled Measurement Scale example #885

Closed mbjones closed 6 years ago

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Author Name: gastil gastil (gastil gastil) Original Redmine Issue: 4688, https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/4688 Original Date: 2010-01-21 Original Assignee: Jing Tao


in the New Data Table Wizard

in Define Attribute or Column

for Category

Relative (statistically interval) shows an example in meters. This is wrong. The Help box explains that meters are in the Absolute category (statistically ratio).

Perhaps a better example unit for the Relative category would be Celsius.

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: gastil gastil (gastil gastil) Original Date: 2010-01-21T21:52:29Z


see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement

I suggest something like this show on the page or help page: "Most measurement in the physical sciences ... is done on ratio scales. Mass, length, time, ... energy ...."

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: ben leinfelder (ben leinfelder) Original Date: 2010-01-21T22:06:20Z


this has been fixed. it is a duplicate of: http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: Redmine Admin (Redmine Admin) Original Date: 2013-03-27T21:27:45Z


Original Bugzilla ID was 4688