mixing different kinds of scales, such as:
- The Scoville-Schmidt scale, for measuring how many wasps you can eat
- The Schmidt-Fujita scale, for measuring wasp storms
- The Kinsey-Kardashev scale, for measuring how gay a civilization is
- The Mohs-Scoville scale, for how measuring hard a pepper is
- The Mohs-Kinsey scale, for measuring how glam you are
- The Kardashev-Scoville scale, for measuring how civilized a pepper is
The Sapir-Simpson scale, for measuring the wind speed of a linguistic mode of thought
The Borges-Borges scale, for measuring the absurdity of a scale (going from “scales that belong to the Emperor” to “scales that tremble as though they were mad” to “various others”).
The Montgomery-Åsberg-Hamilton-Beck scale for measuring how depressed you get filling out yet another depression test when you have multiple diagnoses of bipolar disorder.
The Riddle-Twaddell scale, for measuring the specific gravity of homophobes.