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We further considered a transformation to an ordinal scale.
What he asked me was, How can we ask a question in English that elicits an ordinal number as answer?
To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
The Karnofsky scale emphasizes physical performance and dependency; it is a descriptive, ordinal scale that ranges from 100 (good health) to 0 (dead).
Recently, a reader of my column sent me a letter asking me whether it would be correct to use How manieth to form an ordinal question.