On 31 Oct 2002 03:18:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicolas Kuhne) wrote: > Hi all, > > There are recurrent discussions about Likert and Visual Analog Scales > on many internet discussion groups. > > Does anybody know who invented the expression "visual analog scale" > (which I didn't find really relevant, for each of the word choosed). I > didn't find it out. > > Thank's a lot for any answer or idea where I can find the information.
I searched with google on <"analogue scale" Likert Stevens>. (I added Stevens, a major 'name' in scaling, when there were too many hits in the prior search.) (I think that analog spelled with -ue tends to get the older literature. I did that by accident.) ===== From the first hit - One of the most common modern types is the visual analogue scale (VAS). Although its roots go back farther, it came into common use in the 1960s (e.g., Aitken, Ferres, & Gedye, 1963) and was soon applied widely to measure feelings (Aitken, 1969), pain (Huskisson, 1974), appetitive sensations like hunger (Silverstone & Stunkard, 1968), etc. ====== More? I assume that those citations include earlier references. I usually shorten the ones with three names, if I ask google to find the original. The paper (quoted above) has fuller references. See the end of - http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0302/self_reply.html Likert, Spearman, Thurstone - all wrote in the 1930s. Scaling was vastly popular, pre-war; my guess is that the idea for VAS and the name both arose in that decade. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
