Question

The united states department of homeland security threat advisory system measures threat as severe, high, elevated, guarded, or low. in this system, threat is a ________ variable.

Answer 1

Discrete and ordinal  
These can be seen as factors that are all out because of the level of threat and as such treated as discrete or subjective factors. They can also be regarded as absolute factors can be additionally sorted as either ostensible, ordinal or dichotomous.