Likert Scale

Great thread. The dominance of Likert-type outcome measures means that most psychologists don't actually know what a non-arbitrary measure looks like. So here's a thread on how we can make our measures less arbitrary: 1/n

— Dr. Jessie Sun (@JessieSunPsych) November 29, 2020

Very useful.  The disjoint between relative effects (Likert Scale) and real world implications is one of many epistemic failures which plague a number of branches of academic research.  

I see it connected to an issue I encounter with some frequency.

A problem exists.  Stakeholders (or select decision-makers) leap to a causal conclusion and then leap to a monocausal solution.  They end up measuring success in terms of implementation (typically budget and speed) rather than the amelioration of the original problem.  

If the action/finding has no beneficial real world outcomes, then is it even a real action/finding?