Can Likert Scales be Treated as Interval Scales?—A Simulation Study

By Huiping Wu, Shing-On Leung. 2017

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/63092ae79765ddf35e2f588d3d123082529a88ee

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• What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think (2021, background): “…scales can be treated as interval has been fought for several decades (Glass et al., 1972; Knapp, 1990; Jamieson, 2004; Carifio and Perla, 2007; Wu and Leung, 2017; Liddell and Kruschke, 2018), we argue that ordinal data needs to be analysed as ordinal in NLP: in this paper we demonstrate that…”