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A SIMPLE AND RELIABLE METHOD OF SCORING THE THURSTONE ATTITUDE SCALES
Author(s) -
LIKERT RENSIS,
ROSLOW SYDNEY,
MURPHY GARDNER
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1993.tb00893.x
Subject(s) - thurstone scale , simple (philosophy) , psychology , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy
A simple method of scoring the Thurstone Attitude Scales is presented, which does not involve the use of a judging group and yet is found in several samples to be consistently more reliable than the original method of scoring. The scores obtained by the two methods correlate highly (median r = .88), indicating that they are measuring essentially the same thing.