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.

The answer to this multiple choice questions is "B" Scale

Explanation:

Scale can be best used to assign scores to patterns of responses.

A scale can be in the range of numbers or even level of something used to measure and compare it to what is average.