Dear members,

I have a problem:

in a leadership class in another school, respondents to a survey have
answered open-ended questions asking them to name 5 leaders (actually, three
sets of 5). The respondents then formed groups of 4-5 persons in each, and
developed new lists, this time as a group. So now for each person, there is
a list of their answers and a list of group answers. How would you approach
getting a measure of some dependancy of the group answers and the individual
answers? I thought to look for %% of agreement, that is how many respondents
in the group name a certain leader (named as a group) individually. But the
problem then, the lists can vary wildly, and might be altogether different
not even having any common names, or remarkably similar.

There are several pieces of knowledge one could gain from comparing group
and individual lists, for example, if one member of the group
disproportionately swayed the group opinion; if some majority rules were
used, etc.

I really appreciate any pointers.

Thank you very much,

Zinaida Taran, PhD
Assistant professor
Department of Management and Marketing
School of Business Administration
St. John Fisher College
ztaran-at-sjfc-dot-edu
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