At 01:55 PM 1/4/01 -0500, Bob Hayden wrote:
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>It means the questioner has given up the right to average responses!-)
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>Since it is anyone's guess what "?" means, you would need to give
>counts or percents for each response and leave it to the reader to
>ponder what the "?" means. Whatever it means, it is not likely to be
>a response on the same scale as the other choices. Personally, I
>would think it would be better to provide more specific choices such
>as "I don't understand the question", "I have no opinion", "I never
>heard of the thing you are asking me about", "I don't know".
well, it may or may not mean giving up the right to average ... are you
suggesting that simply by having say a 4 point scale ... SA ... A .... D
... SD ... 4, 3, 2, 1 ... always coding in the most positive way ... gives
us the right TO average?
i didn't think it was quite that simple ...
of course ... even in this scheme ... over a 20 item scale ... let's say
that the mean works out to be 2.5 per item ... does this clarify things?
seems like you are still in a pickle of a situation ... though maybe the
pickle is not quite as dill
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