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I only added "Likert" to my spellchecker tonight

Have I really been "Ignore once"-ing it all this time?

September 20, 2005 : 12:15 AM
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Likert? I don't even know her!
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:16 AM : link to this comment

Hey this is a serious blog. But anyway, what is Likert? British English for liked?
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:19 AM : link to this comment

A Likert scale is a scale about how much someone likes something. The name says it all...
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:23 AM : link to this comment

Your both wrong. It refers to a management style by Dr. Rensis Likert where he says "highly effective work groups linked together in an overlapping pattern by other similarly effective groups." Check it out at accel Team's website: http://www.accel-team.com/human_relations/hrels_04_likert.html
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:30 AM : link to this comment

(Dons his fire-retardent suit...) Lest I be flamed by the above posters, let's think a bit before jumping to conclusions, shall we? Let's look at the facts:

- She is a festidious blogger
- Bloggers are a tight-knit community
- Ergo, she is probably writing a letter in WordPerfect to her fellow blogger at likertland (http://www.likertland.com)

Always remember Occult's Razor: The simplest explanation is always the right one
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:47 AM : link to this comment

Everyone knows Likert is a Floor Management Goeroe in the Netherlands
posted by Anonymous : September 23, 2005 12:51 AM : link to this comment

omg, how dumb are the people that read this blog.
posted by Anonymous : September 26, 2005 1:38 PM : link to this comment

Okay, not fair to generalize to all the readers of this blog just becaues the comments on this particular post are, well, stupid. Let's play nice or I'll start censoring comments.
posted by Moira : September 26, 2005 1:43 PM : link to this comment

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