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Likert scales

Likert scales is the plural of Likert scale.

Meaning of Likert scale

Noun

Likert scale (plural Likert scales)

  1. A symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.
    • In a quantitative version of such a task, participants might be asked to rate the sentences on a scale from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 7 (a “Likert” scale, pronounced “Lick-ert”), or on a binary scale (good vs. bad), or even on an unbounded scale.[2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21

Questions about Likert scales

What is Likert scales the plural of?
Likert scales is the plural of Likert scale.

Words near Likert scales in the dictionary

  1. liker
  2. likerousness
  3. likers
  4. Likert
  5. Likert scale
  6. Likert scales
  7. likes
  8. likes it or lumps it
  9. likes the sound of one's own voice
  10. likesome
  11. likest

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