Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If one item has a terrible distribution, it is going to
> correlate poorly. Okay, that means, Drop it.
> For the statistics, you drop both: bad content and
> bad wording. (Wording is usually easier to mend.)
No. the univariate distributions are normal. But what I meant was that
when I plot one item against the other in a scatter, then since the
variables are measured discretely, I do not get a continuous scatter.
can I continue using the Pearson correlations? Should inter-item and
item to total correlations be reported in terms of the Pearsopn
correlation coefficient?
.
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