"cardinal variable" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Jack Hirshleifer with John G. Riley, The analytics of uncertainty and information, page 14",
          "text": "In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility (intensity of preference) as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable.",
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          "ref": "2001, Bruno S. Frey with Alois Stutzer, Happiness and economics: how the economy and institutions affect well-being, page 185",
          "text": "The least squares estimation treats happiness as a cardinal variable.",
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          "ref": "2007, Ian Gough with J. Allister McGregor, Wellbeing in developing countries: from theory to research, page 266",
          "text": "Life Satisfaction was handled as a cardinal variable, with values between one and seven, where one was assigned to the lowest level of satisfaction",
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        "A variable whose values are ordered, that can be multiplied by a scalar, and for which the magnitude of differences in values is meaningful."
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