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.

if it is a supervisor that collects all the handmade products the word is you but if it goes straight to the machine made activity there isn't any word unless there is robot programmed to say you.

the factors that the economies of the muslim empires prosper were:

1- land trade routes-located between three continents  

2- sea trade routes

trade contributed to the spread of muslim empires, and with that islamic culture led to a growing feeling of internationalism resulted in the transfer of technology, science, and other cultural forms.