. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2012 Nov 21;123(1):123–133. doi: 10.1002/lary.23866

Table III.

Kendall’s W for the SLORs and NLORs showing the inter-rater reliability for each section ranked by the reviewers.

	SLOR	NLOR
Background	0.45	0.62
Comparison to Contemporaries/Predecessors	0.54	0.64
Qualifications for Otolaryngology	0.84	0.49
Global Assessment	0.87	0.74
Summary Statement	0.72	0.62
Overall Ranking	0.78	0.67
Ease of Ranking Review	0.37	0.49

Note. ≤ 0 Poor, 0 - 0.2 Slight, 0.2 - 0.4 Fair, 0.4 - 0.6 Moderate, 0.6 - 0.8 Substantial, 0.8 – 1.0 Almost perfect.