Rating Scale

A Rating Scale is a score that quantifies or categorizes of an attribute.

Context:
- It can range from being a psychometric scale, to being a perceived exertion scale, to being a semantic differential scale.
- It can range from being a numeric rating scale, to being a verbal rating scale, to being a visual analogue scale.
- It can range from being a graphic rating scale to being a descriptive graphic rating Scale.
Example(s):
- a Likert Scale,
- a Borg Scale,
- a Bogardus Social Distance Scale,
- a Discan scale,
- a Guttman Scale,
- a Mokken Scale,
- a Phrase Completion Scale,
- a Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale,
- a Thurstone Scale.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Voting System,
- an Ipsative Measure.
See: Classical Test Theory, Quantitative Property, Qualitative Data, Social Sciences, Psychology, Scale of One to Ten, Rasch Model, Tau-equivalent Reliability.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rating_scale Retrieved:2021-7-29.
- A rating scale is a set of categories designed to elicit information about a quantitative or a qualitative attribute. In the social sciences, particularly psychology, common examples are the Likert response scale and 1-10 rating scales in which a person selects the number which is considered to reflect the perceived quality of a product.