a scale of gauging which lands halfway between a nominal scale and an ordinal scale, such which the scaling units can, usually (but not always), be ordered or rated from tiniest to biggest.
PARTIALLY ORDERED SCALE: "Partially ordered scales are used most frequently to evaluate severity or extremes of behaviors."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "PARTIALLY ORDERED SCALE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/partially-ordered-scale/ (accessed August 18, 2022).