Answer:
We have to answer if the response choices to this question are:
a) Open-ended
b) Scale
c) Contingent
d) Fixed
And the correct answer is:
b) Scale
Explanation:
The response choices are of scale-type because they represent a gradient (or a scale).
They are meant to express the level of unsafety that the elderly experience in their neighborhood, and go, from the highest point the scale (a great deal), to the lowest point in the scale (none), with two options in the middle acting acting as a bridge between the two extremes (Some, Not too much).
