He asked his daughters to assess their friends academically on a scale of zero to five.
Transparency International ranks countries based on a scale of zero to 10, based on various surveys carried out.
BBC: Corruption fanned global political unrest says watchdog
The Office for National Statistics asked people to rate their life satisfaction on a scale of zero to 10.
We define overbought territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
FORBES: Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) Shares Enter Overbought Territory
We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
Then, before they left, they were asked to rate on a scale of zero (no hurt) to five (hurts worst) how much pain they experienced in the warm water and the ice.
ECONOMIST: Religion got it right: pain seems to assuage guilt
One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.
The volunteers were then asked to describe how they would rate a series of acts on an ethical scale ranging from zero (perfectly okay) to nine (very wrong).
ECONOMIST: Soaping away your outer dirt may lead to inner evil
We're now on track to go from zero -- zero commercial-scale biofuel refineries to 19 by the year 2012, and from no commercial-scale power plants operating carbon capture to five by the year 2015.
"As you add scale, your incremental cost goes to zero, " says Robert Greifeld, 51, a former computer salesman who took over at Nasdaq in 2003 as it was being spun out of the old National Association of Securities Dealers, now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Binzel recently created a 10-point scale for estimating the threat of a near-Earth asteroid, with zero indicating no chance of an Earth impact and 10 indicating a certain Earth impact with severe, global damage.
But the majority of asteroids rate a zero, "events having no likely consequences, " according to the Torino scale.
应用推荐