LIKERTSCALE
Likert scale
A Likert scale is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangeably with rating scale, or more accurately the Likert-type scale, even though the two are not synonymous. The scale is named after its inventor, psychologist Rensis Likert. Likert distinguished between a scale proper, which emerges from collective responses to a set of items, and the format in which responses are scored along a range. Technically speaking, a Likert scale refers only to the former. The difference between ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Likert scale
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