A scale to measure degrees of agreement or satisfaction. The values are often coded as numbers and there is an order but otherwise no specific meaning to the values. This is ordinal data.
An example of survey question using a Likert scale might be:
The top level menu items were: unintelligible – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – always easy to interpret.
An example of survey question using a Likert scale might be:
The top level menu items were: unintelligible – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – always easy to interpret.
Used in Chap. 14: page 177
Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 4: page 46; Chap. 12: page 145
Used in glossary entries: ordinal data
