As a benchmark, the doctors asked Guyton to rate her feelings of dread on a scale of 1 to 10.

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Air Pollution Score rates tailpipe emissions for pollutants that cause smog, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the cleanest and 1 the dirtiest.

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When asked about the chances of a lockout on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being most likely to happen), Smith infamously replied it was a 14.

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Senator Chuck Schumer went on a tirade about a smartphone app that lets users avoid drunk driving checkpoints. (Relation to mobile privacy matters on a scale of 1 to 10: 0).

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The 2012 North American Index of economic freedom released by the Fraser Institute puts southern states just ahead of the Northeast 6.5 versus 6.4 in a scale of 1 to 10.

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Salter and co-authors Franklin Mixon of Columbus State University and Ernest King of the University of Southern Mississippi asked 402 people to rate agents, both male and female, on a scale of 1 to 10, from very unattractive to very attractive, based on online head shots.

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To fix this problem, the team asked themselves some simple questions about the decision-making culture: To what extent are decisions currently made by consensus or by the CEO (on a scale of 1-10)?

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