Research Article
Fuzzy Nonbalanced Hedonic Scale (F-NBHS): A New Method for Treatments of Food Preference Data Collected with Hedonic Scales of Points
Table 5
Correspondence between the central value of each category and the linguistic variables presented to the participants.
| Index of the label at the center point (n) | Label of central point category | Linguistic variable of the category | Abbreviation of linguistic variable |
| −4 | | Dislike extremely | DE | −3 | | Dislike very much | DV | −2 | | Dislike moderately | DM | −1 | | Dislike slightly | DS | 0 | | Neither like nor dislike | NLND | 1 | | Like slightly | LS | 2 | | Like moderately | LM | 3 | | Like very much | LV | 4 | | Like extremely | LE |
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