Freda wants to develop a measure of support for the legalization of marijuana such that she can assign scores to patterns of responses, such that some items reflect a relatively weak degree of the variable while others reflect something stronger. Which one of the following should she use?
a. index
b. scale
c. reliability
d. validitye. nominal scale

b. scale

Explanation:

In order for Freda to develop a measure of support for the legalization of marijuana such that she can assign scores to patterns of responses, such that some items reflect a relatively weak degree of the variable while others reflect something stronger, she should use a scale because they rank-order the units of analysis in terms of specific variables.

It is an ideal process of measuring or ordering entities with respect to quantitative attributes.

south, because if you took a map you would see texas is directly in the middle of east and west, but it is also downwards towards mexico, therefore it is south