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語源

Named after its inventor, psychologist Rensis Likert.

名詞

Likert scale (plural Likert scales)

1. A symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.
   • [2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21:

     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.]