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A Likert scale (pronounced 'lick-ert') is an often used questionnaire format. It requests respondents to specify their level of agreement to each of a list of statements.
The Likert scale is named after Rensis Likert, who invented the scale in 1932.
Like Thurstone- or ordinal level of preference; numbers have an inherent order or sequence but do not correspond to a precise mathematical value.