Nominal Scale (Identification)
1) A female teacher died during
poll duty due to Corona (allegedly)
Gender: Female; Occupation: Teacher;
Cause of death: Corona(allegedly)
2) A Muslim Auto-rickshaw driver
converts his auto-rickshaw into a makeshift ambulance
Religion: Islam; Occupation:
Driver, Cause of action: Humanity (hopefully)
Does death identify Gender, Occupation
and Religion?
How someone measures humanity; in empty
words of leaders or a common man’s action?
Ordinal Scale
(Identification + Order)
1) India ranks now at position 2 in
corona cases
2) In World Press Freedom Index
(WPFI), India ranks at 142
Don’t look only at number,
look at what is being measured
Sometimes being in the top three hurts
so much
Interval Scale (Identification
+ Order + Difference)
1) Channel ‘A’ shows celebrity vacations,
cricket and exit polls and has a TRP rating of 130
2) Channel ‘B’ shows death toll,
the plight of migratory mammals and has a TRP rating of 70
Let us applaud ourselves for our absolute
apathy
And enjoy our luxury while half of
the nation hitch and hike between death and poverty
Ratio Scale
(Identification + Order + Difference + Universally accepted starting point)
1) 211,835+ deaths due to corona till
date
2) Oxygen Level follow below eighty, a person gasps for breath, while Oxygen cylinders wait to delivered after our leaders’ debate
I guess when they rewrite
history in few years about our greatest fight against the crisis
They might be able to change the scale of death and show the numbers dead in negative
*for death and its
aftermath
