Favorite ice cream flavor among vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry is best described as which level of measurement?

Interval — because flavor labels can be assigned numbers and differences between those numbers are meaningful.

Ratio — flavors have an absolute zero representing absence of flavor, so ratios are meaningful when comparing taste intensity scores.

Nominal — categories only, qualitative; no meaningful order or numerical operations.

Ordinal — flavors have a natural ranking in everyone's taste hierarchy so ordering and median make sense.