All of the Following Are Legitimate Arguments for Assigning Numbers

Multiple Choice

All of the following are legitimate arguments for assigning numbers to the response categories of a verbal rating scale except

A) a neutral point is needed to allow respondents to demonstrate indifference to an issue
B) the researcher believes the respondents' judgments can be treated as interval data
C) numerical labels can help guide the respondent as the progression of the categories and demonstrate the scale is indeed ordinal, not merely a nominal set of labels
D) the numbers correspond to some quantity explicitly represented in the question itself, such as a frequency