A study by Sunitha and Santhanum Suresh showed that after surgery, children who listened to music or a story of their own choosing for 30 minutes reduced their pain score by one point on a ten-point scale, compared to the children who listened to nothing.
More specifically, when a colleague's review was one point lower on a seven-point scale than one's own self-review, the employee was 44% more likely to drop the relationship with that colleague.
But when the doctor was seated at a higher level, they reported a significantly higher degree of intimidation — nearly one point higher on a seven-point scale.
A Cornell University study of 6,500 Holiday Inn employees discovered that, when measuring the level of trust employees had in their managers, a one-eighth point improvement on a five-point scale correlated with a 2.5% rise in revenues — equating to more than $250,000 per year, per hotel.
To cover all bases, the researchers performed one study in which the participants were asked to rate how true each statement seemed on a six-point scale, and one where they just categorised each fact as "true" or "false".
Study participants ranked each advertisement on a five-point scale, with a score of "one" representing a low motivation to reduce drinking after viewing and "five" representing high motivation to reduce drinking after viewing.
In fact, a one-eighth-point improvement in a hotel's trust score (on a five-point scale) could be expected to increase that hotel's profitability by 2.5% of revenues.
Use this convenient rubric to score yourself on a five-point scale.
It rates five major traits, each on a five-point scale.
Engineers, traffic experts, and financial consultants ranked them in twelve categories on a five-point scale.
It measures each attribute on a four-point scale delineated with behavioral benchmarks.
