I have collected data using a questionaire with 20 rating scales. The
respondents were asked to use tick marks to rate the answers so there were
no anchors. Some people have minimums of '0' and maximums of '10' while
others have minimums of '6' and maximums of '68'. I wish to do a factor
analysis so I need to get everything on the same scale. Initially, I thought
of row standardizing the data. After thinking about it I am not completely
certain this solves the scale problem. My first question is whether row
standardization puts all respondents data onto the same scale? The second
question is what would be another technique or a better technique to get all
data onto the same scale?
Thanks
Lance
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