ISSUE-101: List of valid discrete scale values

List of valid discrete scale values

State:

CLOSED

Product:

EmotionML

Raised by:

Marc Schröder

Opened on:

2009-11-02

Description:

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Group/emotionml/#ISSUE-101
The list of legal discrete values needs to be finalized. There are two options for discrete five-point scales:

* verbal scales, such as “very negative – negative – neutral – positive – very positive”;
* abstract scales, such as “-- - 0 + ++”

It seems difficult to find generic wordings for verbal scales which fit to all possible uses; however, abstract scales may be unintuitive to use. One option would be to use the definition of vocabulary sets for dimensions, appraisals and action tendencies to define the list of legal discrete values for each dimension. As a result, there would potentially be different discrete values, potentially even a different number of values, for each dimension. Generic interpretability may still be possible, though, because of the requirement to state whether a scale is unipolar or bipolar and in combination with a requirement to list the possible values in increasing order.

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