11.   A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale.

12.   And for many researchers, rating scales offer a convenient method to explore what their research subjects are feeling and thinking.

13.   Based on their new Giuliani-friendly rating scale, Ms. Lategano will dispense interviews and information to reporters who are sufficiently uncritical.

14.   But a funny thing happens if an experimenter tries to compare the taste experiences of supertasters and nontasters using a traditional rating scale.

15.   Data also suggest that valerian improves mood and scores on a commonly-used anxiety rating scale.

16.   Such studies, she said, rest on the notion that the adjectives that mark the points on the rating scale mean the same thing to everyone.

17.   The best known rating scale is known as the Scoville test, named for the pharmacist who invented it.

18.   The control subjects indicated on a rating scale that they were less hungry after eating.

19.   While there are plenty of rating scales for anger and fear, Raichle said love has not been as thoroughly studied.