Adjusting the consensus measure to target ordinal scale arguments

William J. Tastle; Mark J. Wierman

doi:10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365443

Adjusting the consensus measure to target ordinal scale arguments

William J. Tastle, Mark J. Wierman

Department of Computer Science, Design & Journalism

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Much research data is collected and analyzed as ordinal scale data. The Likert scale is an example of such a data collection tool. Comparing different Likert scale data sets can be difficult, for no specific tool has been identified that is conceptually sound, though researchers typically apply ratio scale mathe-matics to the data. In this paper a modification of the consensus measure is examined and shown to be a valuable tool in the comparison and ranking of ordinal data. By identifying a specific target category, i.e., the "strongly agree" category of a Likert scale, the target consensus measure calculates a value between 0 and 1, the 0 identifying a Likert scale frequency distribution as being the furthest distance possible from the targeted value, and the 1 representing all values being assigned to the targeted category.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS
Pages	403-407
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365443
State	Published - Dec 1 2006
Event	NAFIPS 2006 - 2006 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - Montreal, QC, Canada Duration: Jun 3 2006 → Jun 6 2006

Publication series

Name	Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Other

Other	NAFIPS 2006 - 2006 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
Country	Canada
City	Montreal, QC
Period	6/3/06 → 6/6/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Computer Science(all)
Mathematics(all)

Access to Document

10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365443

Cite this

Tastle, W. J., & Wierman, M. J. (2006). Adjusting the consensus measure to target ordinal scale arguments. In Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS (pp. 403-407). [4216836] (Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365443

Adjusting the consensus measure to target ordinal scale arguments. / Tastle, William J.; Wierman, Mark J.

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS. 2006. p. 403-407 4216836 (Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Tastle, WJ & Wierman, MJ 2006, Adjusting the consensus measure to target ordinal scale arguments. in Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS., 4216836, Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS, pp. 403-407, NAFIPS 2006 - 2006 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, Montreal, QC, Canada, 6/3/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365443

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