I have
always restricted the use of the term "Likert scale" to those scales where
respondents express their STRENGTH OF AGREEMENT with each of several statements
, typically with response options varying from "stongly disagree" to "strongly
agree." I have, however, increasingly seen "Likert scale" used to describe
items with five or seven ordered response options but where
the response scale is not in terms of strength of agreement. For example,
where the stem is "I think about the Flying Spaghetti Monster" and the
response options are "never," "rarely," "sometimes," "often," and "all the
time." In your opinion, are such scales appropriately referred to as being
"Likert scales?"
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Karl L. Wuensch, Professor,
Dept. of Psychology
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