Even though no one would have blamed Mrs. Dubose if she had wanted to leave this world in narcotic bliss, she decided to try to do what she felt was right, no matter how impossible it seemed or how painful it was. Hmm, sounds like a person whose name begins with A and ends with tticus.. 1  BACK. 2  NEXT.
A ratio is the proportional amount of one quantity relative to another quantity. It's like a fraction, or at least a fraction is one type of ratio.
Ratio scales are measurement systems that possess all three properties: magnitude, intervals, and rational zero. The added power of a rational zero allows ratios of numbers to be meaningfully interpreted; i.e. the ratio of John's height to Mary's height is 1.32, whereas this is not possible with interval scales.