@article{Linneman_2022, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={A Class Activity Illustrating Levels of Measurement: The Fruit Cup Competition}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/levels-measurement-fruit-cup}, abstractNote={<p>This unusual and engaging class activity uses a mock athletic event to introduce and examine the four levels of measurement in research methods and statistics courses. Using inexpensive and readily available items such as common types of fruit and disposable beverage cups, student volunteers “compete” in the Fruit Cup event and their classmates cheer for their favorite contender. Nominal measurement is represented by the men’s versus women’s events (or the Fruit Cup versus the Veggie Vault and Pepper Pack events), ordinal by the gold, silver and bronze medal award system, and interval and ratio by two types of events in which students carry different kinds of fruit to a table and deposit them into numbered beverage cups placed at regular intervals. Optional party favor medals are awarded to all competitors.</p> <p><em>See Extended Usage Notes for more detailed information and a variety of engaging questions for use in assessment</em>.</p>}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Linneman, Judith}, year={2022}, month={May} }