Eli Allen wrote:
Part of my psychology class was on how to get better results on surveys
so......
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Maybe add number 6, "No Comment"? LOL!
Eli's idea sounds similar to a Stanton survey personality profiler.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 07:35 AM 02/06/2005, Eli Allen wrote:
answer doesn't always have the same meaning and allows for detection
of what needs to be thrown out by opposing questions) Laziness is
not the same thing as actively trying to protest.
No it isn't, but I can't be sure which I'm dealing with.
T
Maybe try a bit of both. Try mixing up the questions a bit and since
you are storing the data you can try different algorithms to throw out
the best and worst cases.
Since you have the static data, you can play with the numbers and see
which ones give the most similar results to each other.
So you can take the 80th percentile instead (if you had 10
questionaries, you'd throw out 1 entry, one at the top or bottom.), and
recalculate the average then.
Redo it at 90th percentile (throw out the top or bottom), redo it at
70th and 60th.
Or you can find the standard deviation and throw out the top and bottom
performers there and recalculate the average again.
Keep throwing out certain values and see if any of the results are
similar. Once you find the right "tweak", just use that from now on.
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