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Amy Green

What statistical method should I choose from?

This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse, please help!

There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random sample of
PP members according to employment (business or government) and membership
(<2 years = new member, 2+ years = established member). Next, I asked the
PP to provide me with the actual years of membership and corresponding
salary of each member in the sample.
I am interested in seeing whether years of membership has an effect on
salaries.
a. What should be my first approach to answer this?
b. What is the more detailed approach to determine this?
c. How would I determine the correlation between these two random
variables?
d. How would I determine the fraction of the variance in the salaries
which is explainable by its relationship with the years of membership?
e. I was asked to determine if the mean salary in government is
40,000 per year but I have an outlier in the data. Which method should be
used to determine this?

Choose from the possible methods:
1 boxplot
2 normal probability plot
3 descriptive statistics
4 sign test
5 confidence interval for a single mean
6 independent samples t-test
7 paired samples t-test
8 mann whitney U test
9 ANOVA
10 Levene's test
11 Kruskal-Wallis test
12 Chi square test
13 Pearson's correlation
14 Spearman's correlation
15 Rsquare
16 Simple Linear Regression
17 Fisher's exact test or Likelihood ratio test
18 Scatter Plot

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Marta Garcia-Granero

Re: What statistical method should I choose from?

(with a very slight frown). I'm afraid this looks a lot like student's
homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually don't like it.

Marta GG

Amy Green wrote:

> This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse, please help!
>
> There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random sample of
> PP members according to employment (business or government) and membership
> (<2 years = new member, 2+ years = established member). Next, I asked the
> PP to provide me with the actual years of membership and corresponding
> salary of each member in the sample.
> I am interested in seeing whether years of membership has an effect on
> salaries.
> a. What should be my first approach to answer this?
> b. What is the more detailed approach to determine this?
> c. How would I determine the correlation between these two random
> variables?
> d. How would I determine the fraction of the variance in the salaries
> which is explainable by its relationship with the years of membership?
> e. I was asked to determine if the mean salary in government is
> 40,000 per year but I have an outlier in the data. Which method should be
> used to determine this?
>
> Choose from the possible methods:
> 1 boxplot
> 2 normal probability plot
> 3 descriptive statistics
> 4 sign test
> 5 confidence interval for a single mean
> 6 independent samples t-test
> 7 paired samples t-test
> 8 mann whitney U test
> 9 ANOVA
> 10 Levene's test
> 11 Kruskal-Wallis test
> 12 Chi square test
> 13 Pearson's correlation
> 14 Spearman's correlation
> 15 Rsquare
> 16 Simple Linear Regression
> 17 Fisher's exact test or Likelihood ratio test
> 18 Scatter Plot
>
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FÃ¡tima Madeira

How do you pronouce Likert???

Hi,

I would like to understand what is the right way� to pronouce scale likert?�
It´s like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like "leekert"?

Please, anyone could help me?

Tks,
Fátima

�

Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta García-Granero < [hidden email] > escreveu:

(with a very slight frown). I'm afraid this looks a lot like student's
homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually don't like it.

Marta GG

Amy Green wrote:

> This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse, please help!
>
> There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random sample of
> PP members according to employment (business or government) and membership
> (<2 years = new member, 2+ years = established member). Next, I asked the
> PP to provide me with the actual years of membership and corresponding
> salary of each member in the sample.
> I am interested in seeing whether years of membership has an effect on
> salaries.
> a. What should be my first approach to answer this?
> b. What is the more detailed approach to det ermine this?
> c. How would I determine the correlation between these two random
> variables?
> d. How would I determine the fraction of the variance in the salaries
> which is explainable by its relationship with the years of membership?
> e. I was asked to determine if the mean salary in government is
> 40,000 per year but I have an outlier in the data. Which method should be
> used to determine this?
>
> Choose from the possible methods:
> 1 boxplot
> 2 normal probability plot
> 3 descriptive statistics
> 4 sign test
> 5 confidence interval for a single mean
> 6 independent samples t-test
> 7 paired samples t-test
> 8 mann whitney U test
> 9 ANOVA
> 10 Levene's test
> 11 Kruskal-Wallis test
> 12 Chi square test
> 13 Pearson's correlation
> 14 Spearman's correlation
> 15 Rsquare
> 16 Simple Linear Regression

> 17 Fisher's exact test or Likelihood ratio test
> 18 Scatter Plot
>
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William B. Ware

Re: How do you pronouce Likert???

It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...

wbw

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale likert?
> ??It´s like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like
> "leekert"?
>
> Please, anyone could help me?
>
> Tks,
> Fátima
>
>
>
> ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta García-Granero < [hidden email] >
> escreveu:
>
>
> (with a very slight frown). I'm afraid this looks a lot like
> student's
> homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually don't like
> it.
>
> Marta GG
>
> Amy Green wrote:
> > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
> please help!
> >
> > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
> sample of
> > PP members according to employment (business or government)
> and membership
> > (<2 years = new member, 2+ years = established member). Next,
> I asked the
> > PP to provide me with the actual years of membership and
> corresponding
> > salary of each member in the sample.
> > I am interested in seeing whether years of membership has an
> effect on
> > salaries.
> > a. What should be my first approach to answer this?
> > b. What is the more detailed approach to det ermine this?
> > c. How would I determine the correlation between these two
> random
> > variables?
> > d. How would I determine the fraction of the variance in the
> salaries
> > which is explainable by its relationship with the years of
> membership?
> > e. I was asked to determine if the mean salary in government
> is
> > 40,000 per year but I have an outlier in the data. Which
> method should be
> > used to determine this?
> >
> > Choose from the possible methods:
> > 1 boxplot
> > 2 normal probability plot
> > 3 descriptive statistics
> > 4 sign test
> > 5 confidence interval for a single mean
> > 6 independent samples t-test
> > 7 paired samples t-test
> > 8 mann whitney U test
> > 9 ANOVA
> > 10 Levene's test
> > 11 Kruskal-Wallis test
> > 12 Chi square test
> > 13 Pearson's correlation
> > 14 Spearman's correlation
> > 15 Rsquare
> > 16 Simple Linear Regression
> > 17 Fisher's exact test or Likelihood ratio test
> > 18 Scatter Plot
> >
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zstatman

Re: How do you pronouce Likert???

In reply to this post by FÃ¡tima Madeira

Also can be "like-ert"

WMB

On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:

> It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...
>
> wbw
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale
> likert?
> > ??ItÂ´s like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like
> > "leekert"?
> >
> > Please, anyone could help me?
> >
> > Tks,
> > FÃ¡tima
> >
> >
> >
> > ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta GarcÃa-Granero < [hidden email]
> >
> > escreveu:
> >
> >
> > (with a very slight frown).
> I'm afraid this looks a lot like
> > student's
> > homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually
> don't like
> > it.
> >
> > Marta GG
> >
> > Amy Green wrote:
> > > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
> > please help!
> > >
> > > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
> > sample

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Hector Maletta

Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

In the US, pronunciation anarchy, with a penchant for local flavour, seems
to reign, so you can do as you feel like, or as you hear it pronounced
around you when you happen to visit the land of opportunity, where there is
opportunity for pronunciation creativity as well. In the UK, instead, more
fidelity to the original is often recommended, as in other European
countries and languages.
I prefer the latter doctrine, just out of Old World snobbishness I suppose:
the opposite rule, i.e. pronouncing everything the way it seems natural in
(American) English, often produces monsters, such as "stimuLAH-y" for the
Latin word "stimuli" which (in Latin) should sound "STImulee", i.e. with a
different ending sound and with the emphasis on the first syllable, not on
the last. If you use a Latin word, you'd better pronounce it in Latin.
And the same for German or whatever: the German name Weinstein, say, should
be pronounced as in German, something like VAH-in-shtah-in, and not
Weinstin, as the Weinsteins must often suffer in America. And Antonin
Dvorak, the author of the 'Symphony of the New World', at least in
gratefulness for having composed it, should be properly called VOR-jack, as
it sounds in the original Czech.
This can be judged to be, I know, an annoying rule. Forces one to learn a
bit about basic pronunciation rules in some other languages.
But so be it, at least in the hope of reciprocity. After all, it would be
awful to hear, say, the august name of William Shakespeare being pronounced
Shack-es-pay-arh-eh by Spanish, Italian or Portuguese barbarians.
According to these principles of mine the surname Likert, being of German
origin as I think I remember, should be pronounced Lickert, not because it
is frequently so pronounced, but because that is the right way to pronounce
it in an educated environment.
Carpe diem
(Carp - die - em ?)
Hector

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Statmanz
Sent: 27 July 2009 15:35
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: How do you pronouce Likert???

Also can be "like-ert"

WMB

On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:

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Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

Exactly right! How did HE pronounce it--that should be the preferred way.

Much like the argument over Roosevelt--FDR called himself 'Rose-velt' Republicans of his day Called him (as a slur, much like the phrase 'Democrat Party' is today)) Ruse-velt.

Vale

-----Original Message-----

>From: Hector Maletta <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2009 7:24 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Likert???
>
>In the US, pronunciation anarchy, with a penchant for local flavour, seems
>to reign, so you can do as you feel like, or as you hear it pronounced
>around you when you happen to visit the land of opportunity, where there is
>opportunity for pronunciation creativity as well. In the UK, instead, more
>fidelity to the original is often recommended, as in other European
>countries and languages.
>I prefer the latter doctrine, just out of Old World snobbishness I suppose:
>the opposite rule, i.e. pronouncing everything the way it seems natural in
>(American) English, often produces monsters, such as "stimuLAH-y" for the
>Latin word "stimuli" which (in Latin) should sound "STImulee", i.e. with a
>different ending sound and with the emphasis on the first syllable, not on
>the last. If you use a Latin word, you'd better pronounce it in Latin.
>And the same for German or whatever: the German name Weinstein, say, should
>be pronounced as in German, something like VAH-in-shtah-in, and not
>Weinstin, as the Weinsteins must often suffer in America. And Antonin
>Dvorak, the author of the 'Symphony of the New World', at least in
>gratefulness for having composed it, should be properly called VOR-jack, as
>it sounds in the original Czech.
>This can be judged to be, I know, an annoying rule. Forces one to learn a
>bit about basic pronunciation rules in some other languages.
>But so be it, at least in the hope of reciprocity. After all, it would be
>awful to hear, say, the august name of William Shakespeare being pronounced
>Shack-es-pay-arh-eh by Spanish, Italian or Portuguese barbarians.
>According to these principles of mine the surname Likert, being of German
>origin as I think I remember, should be pronounced Lickert, not because it
>is frequently so pronounced, but because that is the right way to pronounce
>it in an educated environment.
>Carpe diem
>(Carp - die - em ?)
>Hector
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Statmanz
>Sent: 27 July 2009 15:35
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronouce Likert???
>
>Also can be "like-ert"
>
>WMB
>
>
>
>On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:
>> It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...
>>
>> wbw
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale
>> likert?
>> > ??ItÂ´s like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like
>> > "leekert"?
>> >
>> > Please, anyone could help me?
>> >
>> > Tks,
>> > FÃ¡tima
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta GarcÃa-Granero < [hidden email]
>> >
>> > escreveu:
>> >
>> >
>> > (with a very slight frown).
>> I'm afraid this looks a lot like
>> > student's
>> > homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually
>> don't like
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Marta GG
>> >
>> > Amy Green wrote:
>> > > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
>> > please help!
>> > >
>> > > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
>> > sample
>
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Diego Cano

Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

fyi

This question actually came up on another list a few years ago. The author collated results, and found Americans preferred like-ert, while
Europeans tended towards lick-ert. However, one of the respondents who went for lick-ert happened to be the son of R. Likert, so I've changed my pronunciation since then.

http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/StatHelp/Likert.htm

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D. <[hidden email]> wrote:

Exactly right! How did HE pronounce it--that should be the preferred way.

Much like the argument over Roosevelt--FDR called himself 'Rose-velt' Republicans of his day Called him (as a slur, much like the phrase 'Democrat Party' is today) Ruse-velt.

Vale

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hector Maletta <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2009 7:24 PM
>To: [hidden email]

>Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Likert???
>
>In the US, pronunciation anarchy, with a penchant for local flavour, seems
>to reign, so you can do as you feel like, or as you hear it pronounced
>around you when you happen to visit the land of opportunity, where there is
>opportunity for pronunciation creativity as well. In the UK, instead, more
>fidelity to the original is often recommended, as in other European
>countries and languages.
>I prefer the latter doctrine, just out of Old World snobbishness I suppose:
>the opposite rule, i.e. pronouncing everything the way it seems natural in
>(American) English, often produces monsters, such as "stimuLAH-y" for the
>Latin word "stimuli" which (in Latin) should sound "STImulee", i.e. with a
>different ending sound and with the emphasis on the first syllable, not on
>the last. If you use a Latin word, you'd better pronounce it in Latin.
>And the same for German or whatever: the German name Weinstein, say, should
>be pronounced as in German, something like VAH-in-shtah-in, and not
>Weinstin, as the Weinsteins must often suffer in America. And Antonin
>Dvorak, the author of the 'Symphony of the New World', at least in
>gratefulness for having composed it, should be properly called VOR-jack, as
>it sounds in the original Czech.
>This can be judged to be, I know, an annoying rule. Forces one to learn a
>bit about basic pronunciation rules in some other languages.
>But so be it, at least in the hope of reciprocity. After all, it would be
>awful to hear, say, the august name of William Shakespeare being pronounced
>Shack-es-pay-arh-eh by Spanish, Italian or Portuguese barbarians.
>According to these principles of mine the surname Likert, being of German
>origin as I think I remember, should be pronounced Lickert, not because it
>is frequently so pronounced, but because that is the right way to pronounce
>it in an educated environment.
>Carpe diem
>(Carp - die - em ?)
>Hector
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Statmanz
>Sent: 27 July 2009 15:35
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronouce Likert???
>
>Also can be "like-ert"
>
>WMB
>
>
>
>On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:
>> It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...
>>
>> wbw
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale
>> likert?

>> > ??ItÂ´s like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like

>> > "leekert"?
>> >
>> > Please, anyone could help me?
>> >
>> > Tks,

>> > FÃ¡tima
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta GarcÃa-Granero < [hidden email]

>> >
>> > escreveu:
>> >
>> >
>> > (with a very slight frown).
>> I'm afraid this looks a lot like
>> > student's
>> > homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually
>> don't like
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Marta GG
>> >
>> > Amy Green wrote:
>> > > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
>> > please help!
>> > >
>> > > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
>> > sample
>
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Allan Lundy, PhD

Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

In reply to this post by Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D.

...and just to complicate matters, it's my understanding that the great German-American psychologist Kurt Lewin originally pronounced his name "le VEEN", but after many years in the US, he came to feel the American pronunciation "LOO-in" was more natural, and asked others to pronounce it that way. Don't know if Rensis Likert ever came to regret the "lick" prenounciation.
Allan

At 08:24 PM 7/27/2009, Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D. wrote:

Exactly right! How did HE pronounce it--that should be the preferred way.

Much like the argument over Roosevelt--FDR called himself 'Rose-velt' Republicans of his day Called him (as a slur, much like the phrase 'Democrat Party' is today) Ruse-velt.

Vale

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Sonia Brandon

Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

In reply to this post by Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D.

HE was a guy from Wyoming that pronounced it like Mr (DR??) Ware told us a few
messages back.

LICK -URT

AGREED- it's his name, that is how we should pronounce it - how he pronounced
it.

>>> "Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D." <[hidden email]> 7/27/2009 6:24 PM >>>
Exactly right! How did HE pronounce it--that should be the preferred way.

Much like the argument over Roosevelt--FDR called himself 'Rose-velt'
Republicans of his day Called him (as a slur, much like the phrase 'Democrat
Party' is today) Ruse-velt.

Vale

-----Original Message-----

>From: Hector Maletta <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2009 7:24 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Likert???
>
>In the US, pronunciation anarchy, with a penchant for local flavour, seems
>to reign, so you can do as you feel like, or as you hear it pronounced
>around you when you happen to visit the land of opportunity, where there is
>opportunity for pronunciation creativity as well. In the UK, instead, more
>fidelity to the original is often recommended, as in other European
>countries and languages.
>I prefer the latter doctrine, just out of Old World snobbishness I suppose:
>the opposite rule, i.e. pronouncing everything the way it seems natural in
>(American) English, often produces monsters, such as "stimuLAH-y" for the
>Latin word "stimuli" which (in Latin) should sound "STImulee", i.e. with a
>different ending sound and with the emphasis on the first syllable, not on
>the last. If you use a Latin word, you'd better pronounce it in Latin.
>And the same for German or whatever: the German name Weinstein, say, should
>be pronounced as in German, something like VAH-in-shtah-in, and not
>Weinstin, as the Weinsteins must often suffer in America. And Antonin
>Dvorak, the author of the 'Symphony of the New World', at least in
>gratefulness for having composed it, should be properly called VOR-jack, as
>it sounds in the original Czech.
>This can be judged to be, I know, an annoying rule. Forces one to learn a
>bit about basic pronunciation rules in some other languages.
>But so be it, at least in the hope of reciprocity. After all, it would be
>awful to hear, say, the august name of William Shakespeare being pronounced
>Shack-es-pay-arh-eh by Spanish, Italian or Portuguese barbarians.
>According to these principles of mine the surname Likert, being of German
>origin as I think I remember, should be pronounced Lickert, not because it
>is frequently so pronounced, but because that is the right way to pronounce
>it in an educated environment.
>Carpe diem
>(Carp - die - em ?)
>Hector
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Statmanz
>Sent: 27 July 2009 15:35
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronouce Likert???
>
>Also can be "like-ert"
>
>WMB
>
>
>
>On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:
>> It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...
>>
>> wbw
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale
>> likert?
>> > ??ItÂs like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like
>> > "leekert"?
>> >
>> > Please, anyone could help me?
>> >
>> > Tks,
>> > FÃ¡tima
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta GarcÃ-a-Granero < [hidden email]
>> >
>> > escreveu:
>> >
>> >
>> > (with a very slight frown).
>> I'm afraid this looks a lot like
>> > student's
>> > homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually
>> don't like
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Marta GG
>> >
>> > Amy Green wrote:
>> > > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
>> > please help!
>> > >
>> > > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
>> > sample
>
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Hector Maletta

Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

I agree, because we happen to know, apparently, how he pronounced it. But
that is happenstance. When you find a reference to somebody called Likert,
and you do not know anything about the person's preferences, the general
rule is to use the correct pronunciation in the name's original language.
This is more so if the person is not an immigrant (or a descendant of
immigrants) in the US or somewhere else, but lives in his country of origin.

So the name of former Polish leader Lech Walesa should sound Lekh Vahwensa,
and that of former Czech president Vaclav Havel should sound Venslav Hahfel.
Vaclav is the way how you spell Wenceslaw in Czech, with some cryptical
diacritical on the first "a", just as Walesa has a no less cryptical oblique
dash crossing the "l", which should tell everybody (i.e. everybody who is in
the know) that his name sounds Vahwensa. Everybody should know these things,
you see, and pronounce names properly, for the same reason a Portuguese or
Spaniard should call Shakespeare Shakespeare, and not Shack-es-peh-arh-eh.
Enough of this.
H.
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Sonia Brandon
Sent: 28 July 2009 10:44
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Likert???

HE was a guy from Wyoming that pronounced it like Mr (DR??) Ware told us a
few
messages back.

LICK -URT

AGREED- it's his name, that is how we should pronounce it - how he
pronounced
it.

>>> "Peter A. Neenan, Ph.D." <[hidden email]> 7/27/2009 6:24 PM >>>
Exactly right! How did HE pronounce it--that should be the preferred way.

Much like the argument over Roosevelt--FDR called himself 'Rose-velt'
Republicans of his day Called him (as a slur, much like the phrase 'Democrat
Party' is today) Ruse-velt.

Vale

-----Original Message-----

>From: Hector Maletta <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2009 7:24 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Likert???
>
>In the US, pronunciation anarchy, with a penchant for local flavour, seems
>to reign, so you can do as you feel like, or as you hear it pronounced
>around you when you happen to visit the land of opportunity, where there is
>opportunity for pronunciation creativity as well. In the UK, instead, more
>fidelity to the original is often recommended, as in other European
>countries and languages.
>I prefer the latter doctrine, just out of Old World snobbishness I suppose:
>the opposite rule, i.e. pronouncing everything the way it seems natural in
>(American) English, often produces monsters, such as "stimuLAH-y" for the
>Latin word "stimuli" which (in Latin) should sound "STImulee", i.e. with a
>different ending sound and with the emphasis on the first syllable, not on
>the last. If you use a Latin word, you'd better pronounce it in Latin.
>And the same for German or whatever: the German name Weinstein, say, should
>be pronounced as in German, something like VAH-in-shtah-in, and not
>Weinstin, as the Weinsteins must often suffer in America. And Antonin
>Dvorak, the author of the 'Symphony of the New World', at least in
>gratefulness for having composed it, should be properly called VOR-jack, as
>it sounds in the original Czech.
>This can be judged to be, I know, an annoying rule. Forces one to learn a
>bit about basic pronunciation rules in some other languages.
>But so be it, at least in the hope of reciprocity. After all, it would be
>awful to hear, say, the august name of William Shakespeare being pronounced
>Shack-es-pay-arh-eh by Spanish, Italian or Portuguese barbarians.
>According to these principles of mine the surname Likert, being of German
>origin as I think I remember, should be pronounced Lickert, not because it
>is frequently so pronounced, but because that is the right way to pronounce
>it in an educated environment.
>Carpe diem
>(Carp - die - em ?)
>Hector
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Statmanz
>Sent: 27 July 2009 15:35
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: How do you pronouce Likert???
>
>Also can be "like-ert"
>
>WMB
>
>
>
>On 7/27/2009 4:29:09 PM, William B. Ware ([hidden email]) wrote:
>> It is pronounced "lick-ert" as in lick an ice cream cone...
>>
>> wbw
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, FXXtima Madeira wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to understand what is the right way??to pronouce scale
>> likert?
>> > ??ItÂs like the word "like" or its like the word "see" something like
>> > "leekert"?
>> >
>> > Please, anyone could help me?
>> >
>> > Tks,
>> > FÃ¡tima
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ??Em 27/07/2009 12:01, Marta GarcÃ-a-Granero < [hidden email]
>> >
>> > escreveu:
>> >
>> >
>> > (with a very slight frown).
>> I'm afraid this looks a lot like
>> > student's
>> > homework. Is it so? Being a teacher myself, I usually
>> don't like
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Marta GG
>> >
>> > Amy Green wrote:
>> > > This may be a simple question for you, but I still confuse,
>> > please help!
>> > >
>> > > There was a survey reported in a news that classified a random
>> > sample
>
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