When a person watches television for a long stretch of time in order to observe and then, record the total aggressive incidents occurring during that period is a good example of the rate measure of the behavior. The rate measure refers to the measure of the frequency of the concerned events occurring in the defined period of time. Since, the person is looking for the aggressive behavior on television during his four hour watching, this is a rate measure.
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