DocumentCode
2642450
Title
Consensus and dissention: a new measure of agreement
Author
Tastle, William J. ; Wierman, Mark J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Bus. Adm., Ithaca Coll., NY, USA
fYear
2005
fDate
26-28 June 2005
Firstpage
385
Lastpage
388
Abstract
This paper introduces a new measure of ordinal scales, specifically that of the Likert scale. An overview of the Likert scale is given and a set of requirements is presented that should be satisfied to assure a proper meaning of consensus within the confines of the Likert scale. Illustrations compare the consensus measure with entropy and other statistical measures. The consensus measure also serves as an effective measure of dispersion.
Keywords
entropy; psychometric testing; statistical analysis; Likert scale; consensus measure; dissention; entropy; ordinal scale measure; statistical measure; Application software; Computer science; Decision making; Dispersion; Documentation; Educational institutions; Entropy; Internet; Licenses; Voting;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2005. NAFIPS 2005. Annual Meeting of the North American
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9187-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NAFIPS.2005.1548566
Filename
1548566
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