Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> 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?
Lance:
Taking a second look at you post I am not sure I understand your measurement
procedure, so you may want to disregard my comments. Maybe you could explain in
more detail what the respondents did with the tick marks.
Chuck
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