Having viewed some of the highly edited videotaped material of Terri Schiavo and having seen other patients in a persistent vegetative state, I am not surprised that family members and others unfamiliar with this condition would interpret some of her apparent alertness and movement as meaningful.
A Likert Scale is a type of psychometric scale frequently used in psychology questionnaires. It was developed by and named after organizational psychologist Rensis Likert. Self-report inventories are one of the most widely used tools in psychological research.
Likert Scales. By presenting a balanced scale of answer choices on both sides of a neutral option, a Likert scale allows you to uncover degrees of opinion on a particular topic. There are several pre-written Likert scale questions available in the Question Bank. For example: