(Essay found in Nesselroade & Grimm, 2019; pgs. 39 – 40) Use the scale below to respond to the following statement: I enjoy studying statistics. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither Disagree nor Agree Agree Strongly Agree If we have ever had to respond to a question in this manner, we can thank the social scientist, Rensis Likert. Likert, born in 1903 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, first began his undergraduate studies in 1922 in civil engineering, but then soon discovered that he preferred to study people instead of inanimate objects (Faculty History Project,