Let's take a picture of apples:Are there experiments conducted that study the distribution of the following answers to the question How many apples are on this picture?:Very littleLittleNormalManyLots ofWell, of course, this specific picture doesn't matter, but this type of questions is important for many applications, like in surveys, when people rate things on subjective scales, so that in particular situations we can compare neither across questions with the same scale nor across persons answered the same question.For example, think of 360-degree surveys when a person rates himself and is rated by others, so to compare in the end the two ratings.
How do people perceive subjective scales?
cognitive psychology