On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:14:55 +0200, "Burger" <burger1965@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> Hi everyone! I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup but can't find
a
> better one. I hope you are willing to take a look at it.
> For a Likert type kind of question (something like "does this product
> satisfy your needs?"), I have to choose between two lists that I can
offer
> respondents as potential answers. Both are possible but which would you
say
> is preferable?
>
> 1. Not at all
> 2. A little
> 3. Somewhat
> 4. Quite a lot
> 5. To a great extent
>
> or
>
> 1. Not at all
> 2. To a small extent
> 3. To a moderate extent
> 4. To a large extent
> 5. To a great extent
>
Like Stan says, the gradation is not completely clear
on 4 and 5.
British subjects are apt to read "quite" as either what
Americans mean as "quite" or else as "not quite".
You might find any textbook with the word Psychometrics
in the title. Google-scholar can help.
Also, what you have are items on a 1-5 scale, intended
to specify equal intervals.
I know that the term "Likert" gets used loosely, but the
original Likert scales specified "agreement-disagreement"
using symmetrical terms and where the expected average
was in the middle. I don't think you need to use
"Likert" here unless you at least achieve the symmetry.
--
Rich Ulrich
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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