On Sensory Analysis, descriptive scales are frequently used with the Japanese qualitative words (most of them are adverbs). This study was to verify the ordinal efficacy of previous studies (hedonic scale construction by Yoshikawa, 1973 ; Akagi et. al, 1985) by means of the scoring method. Because of qualitative words used differently in either the positive or negative direction, selected tasks were examined first: I) which words do you use in the positive meaning and II) in the negative meaning, about 48 words previously reported, then III) scoring task(0 to 100 from a positive integer) about 21 words. Subjects (not expert panel), were 1,180 people from 15 to 53 years old (below 22 years old occupying about 96%), in 1993-1996. Although the different survey methods, there were differences: 1) “mottomo”, “hijouni”, and “kiwamete” are not to distinguish in negative expression, 2) the difference between “kanari”, and these three words, 3) the differences to “soutou”, “totemo”, “jituni”, “tokuni”, and “taisou”, 4) “hikakuteki”, “wariaini”, and “nakanaka” are independent, 5) “yaya”, “ikuraka”, “chotto”, “jakkan”, and “sukosi” are not statistically different in 95%CI. Then this study proposed a 9-point hedonic (ordinal) scale: “hijouni”, “totemo”, “yaya”, “wazukani”, “dochirademonai (sukidemokiraidemonai)”, “wazukani”, “yaya”, “totemo”, “hijouni”. In case of interval scale, it is desirable to use with numerical values.
