i am amazed that any program would still do this ...
http://www.assess.com/Software/iteman.htm
At 04:58 PM 1/31/03 -0500, William B. Ware wrote:
Karl,
Are you thinking about the "Kelly split?" In doing item analysis, Kelly
recommended using the bottom 27% and top 27% of the cases. This
simplified the computation (by hand) without sacrificing very much
information. I think that the original reference might have been in the
1930s...
Bill
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Wuensch, Karl L wrote:
> When interested in the relationship between two continuous
> variables, some researchers will dichotomize one of them prior to analysis.
> I generally discourage such dichotomization, but the practice is common. A
> colleague asked me today about the practice of dichotomizing by a median
> split (top half versus bottom half) versus the practice of using only the
> tails (bottom third versus top third, for example). I outlined my thoughts
> on this matter and noted that I vaguely recall having read an article or two
> on this matter long ago, but cannot put my finger on the article(s). Can
> any of you all?
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