RANKING ORDINAL SCALES USING THE CONSENSUS MEASURE

By William J. Tastle, M. Wierman. 2005

54 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A new measure is applied to the analysis of ordinal scales, specifically the Likert scale. Using this measure, sets of Likert scales can be hierarchically compared, and the measure is mathematically simple to apply. A set of rules for consensus is identified and an example of its use as a measure of the strength of consensus is illustrated. Using an existing Likert scale of responses, the strength of consensus measure is applied and the results are shown to provide greater insights into the importance of the various rows of data.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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