Objective tests have a restricted response format, such as allowing for true or false answers or rating using an ordinal scale.

This violates the axiom of transitivity for the ordinal scale.

A common ordinal scale ask about levels of satisfaction.

The data can be meaningfully ranked (i.e., the data have at least an ordinal scale).

As a score on an ordinal scale specific to each item (0 to 2, 3, 4 or simply yes/no).

No social choice function meets these requirements in an ordinal scale simultaneously.

There are also doubts about the validity of the linearisation of the ordinal scale which is implied in the diagrams.

We further considered a transformation to an ordinal scale.

Two concomitant scales are used: a continuous cardinal scale and a discrete ordinal scale ranging from 1 to 5.

This paradigm includes an ordinal scale of features that an individual must attend to in order to inform his or her cognitive map.