In 1935 (the year before the Berlin Olympics), Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 26 ft 8 in, and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by Ralph Boston in 1960.
The rank-size rule (or rank-size distribution) of city populations, is a commonly observed statistical relationship between the population sizes and population ranks of a nationâs cities.
We can still rank ordinal responses. Rank is an interval scale (intervals on rank have the same meaning everywhere in a given ranking). Mean rank (for example for different treatments) also has a meaning on the ranking scale, and can be used, for example, as estimates of a population mean rank.