{"id":128,"date":"2014-10-13T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2014-11-09T03:19:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:19:45","slug":"likert-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Likert pronunciation (Spoiler alert: LICK-ert)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be a bit ridiculous, but Likert Scales get used quite a lot in my reading and research. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ler.illinois.edu\/faculty\/fp_newman.html\">Dan Newman<\/a> stressed that Dr. Likert&#8217;s name is pronounced LICK-ert, but so many others use LIKE-ert. \u00a0In the interest of using a common language and honoring a person&#8217;s name, I want to offer some clarity to\u00a0what&#8217;s correct. \u00a0<strong>It&#8217;s LICK-ert.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Dan&#8217;s word isn&#8217;t enough, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaccess.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=24251\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/core.ecu.edu\/psyc\/wuenschk\/stathelp\/Likert.htm\">here<\/a>\u00a0(scroll down),\u00a0and wikipedia (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Likert_scale\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be a bit ridiculous, but Likert Scales get used quite a lot in my reading and research. \u00a0Dan Newman stressed that Dr. Likert&#8217;s name is pronounced LICK-ert, but so many others use LIKE-ert. \u00a0In the interest of using a common language and honoring a person&#8217;s name, I want&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Likert pronunciation","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-likert-scales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51adQ-24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}