Electronegativity of Potassium (Pauling) Just a little question, I was taught that the electronegativity of potassium[K] is 1, but I recently discovered most internet resources say 0.82. Some even say both. What is the actual electronegativity of potassium, 0.82 or 1?
It depends which electronegativity scale you choose to use.  There are a lot of different scales for comparing electronegativities of the elements.  I've included a list of 11 of them below if you're interested.  In any case here are the electronegativities reported for potassium using 5 different electronegativity scales.  All values are in "Pauling units" so that the numbers can be compared.  The Pauling scale is the most commonly used, so 0.82 would be a reasonable estimate for the electronegativity of potassium.


Pauling 0.82
Sanderson 0.45
Allred Rochow 0.91
Mulliken-Jaffe 0.73
Allen 0.734


On the Pauling scale, electronegativities range from around 0.7 to 3.98 (fluorine), so as expected, potassium is at the electropositive end.  None of these scales report a value of 1.

List of 11 Different Electronegativity Scales


Pauling Scale: (1932)  Obtains values by thermochemical methods
Mulliken Relation: (1934)  Defines a relation that depends upon the
orbital characteristics of an atom in a molecule. Mulliken
electronegativity is the numerical average of the ionisation
potential and electron affinity
Gordy Scale: (1946)  Defines electronegativity in terms of the
effective nuclear charge and the covalent radius. (Zeff)e/r         
Walsh Scale: (1951)  Relates electronegativity to stretching force
constants of the bonds of an atom to a hydrogen atom.
Huggins Scale: (1953) Alternative to Pauling's thermochemical
procedure
Sanderson Scale: (1955)  The ratio of the average electron density of
an atom to that of a hypothetical "inert" atom having the same number of electrons. This ratio is a measure of the relative compactness of the atom
Allred-Rochow Scale: (1958)  Defines electronegativity in terms of the effective nuclear charge and covalent radius. Like the Gordy scale but uses (Zeff)e/r2
Jaffe Scale: (1962)  Uses the electronegativity of orbitals rather
than atoms to develop group electronegativities for molecular fragments (e.g. $\ce{CH3}$ vs $\ce{CF3}$) that take into account the charge of a group, the effects of substituents, and the hybridization of the bonding orbital
Phillips Scale: (1968)  Defines electronegativity in terms of the
dielectric properties of atoms in a given valence state
Martynov &amp; Batsanov Scale: (1980) Obtained by averaging the
successive ionisation energies of an element's valence electrons
Allen CE Scale: (1992) Configuration energy (CE), the average
one-electron valence shell energy of the ground-state free atom, is
used to quantify metal-covalent-ionic bonding