Likert scale

English Etymology Named after its inventor, psychologist Rensis Likert. Noun A symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement. en 2025 Edward A. F. Gibson Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure 2 Syntax: A Cognitive Approach w:MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/15535.003.0006 9780262385046 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. 1 Translations Czech: cs Likertova škála f German: de Likert-Skala f, de Likertskala f Hungarian: hu Likert-skála en eponyms