Standardization across dimensions requires only a shared low-to-high ordinal continuum.

Evidence

All of the methods discussed below implement this in different ways, but the common scale puts “high” on dimension 1 together with “high” on dimension 2 as the same on the common scale, typically [0, 1] or [1, 100]. The substance of the dimensions can vary widely, but what one needs for standardization is some underlying continuum of low to high. This can be as simple as the ordinal 0–1 scale, as long as there is a clear sense that 0 means none or low, and 1 means high on the continuum. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 854

Categorization

• BMF: No match in the listed fiction library; this measurement logic of rescaling heterogeneous inputs onto a shared 0–1 axis evokes Ian Hacking’s work on the taming of chance.