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Hi
I need some professional advice on a statistics question. I recently took part
in a survey where the scale of responses was given as:
Agree / Tend to Agree / ? / Tend to Disagree / Disagree
The question mark in the middle seems very ambiguous to me. Can anyone tell me
if this is a
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The question mark is just being used to avoid using words like "no
opinion" or "neutral", presumably assuming that most foks would make a
well, glad you asked ... one of the best treatments of this question you
have raised was a small handout done by bob frary (retired from vpi) on
?airre development ... and lucky for you there is a url to this
http://www.testscoring.vt.edu/fraryquest.html
bob has a nice little section on the ?
James:
Using "?" is not good. "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" would be better. "?" will
end up being a catch-all response: for those who neither agree nor disagree, those
who didn't understand the question, who choose not to answer the question, and so
forth. In which case the resultant
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Hi
I need some professional advice on a statistics question. I recently
took part in a survey where the scale of responses was given as:
Agree / Tend to Agree / ? / Tend to Disagree / Disagree
The question mark in the middle seems very
To my knowledge the question mark is not commonly used and I think
confusing. What I have seen are the words "neither agree or disagree", "no
opinion" and others. They may have used it to save space.Judy Conn
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From: Bob Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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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!-)
Since it is anyone's guess what "?" means, you would need to give
counts or percents for each response and leave it to the
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:36:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred
Breull) wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:57:14 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jim's statement is not a "view"; it is 100% correct: there *is* a
literature, and that does not depend at all on "your psychological ...
On 3 Jan 2001 15:07:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hopkins)
wrote:
I'm a newcomer to understanding and calculating heritability and
related statistics. I notice that heritability is a
variance-explained statistic (variance attributed to inheritance
divided by total between-subject
Rich, thanks for those comments. I have a few remarks in reply.
If you have a criterion (reaction time, etc.) where you average dozens
or hundreds of observations to make a point to be analyzed, the
"effect size" is magnified by averaging. That is, if you can change
an average by .01, that
To determine the number of classes for a histogram, Excel uses square root
of the number of observations. Is it also true for the number of
observations greater than 200, say, for 2000?. Does the MINITAB use the same
for determining the number of classes for a histogram?
Any help would be
dennis roberts wrote:
well, glad you asked ... one of the best treatments of this question you
have raised was a small handout done by bob frary (retired from vpi) on
?airre development ... and lucky for you there is a url to this
http://www.testscoring.vt.edu/fraryquest.html
Thanks for
Thank you, Dennis, for making an effort to provide access to
this information. I also look forward to seeing what the
CHANCE project makes of this issue.
As Dennis pointed out in an earlier mail, many of the issues were
not statistical. A better term is perhaps "methodological", but
so be
Dear EdStat readers,
I was as disgusted as you were to see the horrible message that was posted to
EdStat last night. PLEASE just delete the message and move on! There is
nothing the NC State postmaster or computer center can do about this, and if
you complain to them, they will shut down the
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