Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Art Kendall
I would consider it a unipolar extent scale Maybe the visual anchor should be 0 to 6 to aid association with the number line concept Dennis Roberts wrote: At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity how

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Art Kendall
DMR, I should have read your previous posting more carefully I have now had coffee Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful is a question that has an extent response format The cognitive schema the response format tries to invoke might be reinforced by anchoring with zero for

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread J. Williams
On 27 Feb 2002 15:01:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity ... how many consider the above to be an example of a bipolar scale? i don't now, if we

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 09:51 AM 2/28/02 -0800, Jay Tanzman wrote: I partially did this, insofar as I ran Pearson and Spearman correlations between several of the scales and, not surprisingly, the two correlation coefficients and their p-values were similar. that issue is entirely a separate one since the rank

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity ... how many consider the above to be an example of a bipolar scale? i don't now, if we had an item like: sad happy 1 . 7 THEN the mid point

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-26 Thread Jay Tanzman
J. Williams wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:17:55 -0800, Jay Tanzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got chewed out by my boss for modelling the means of some 7-point semantic differential scales. The scales were part of a written, self-administered questionnaire, and were laid out like

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-26 Thread Rich Ulrich
2. Perhaps more likely, your boss may have learned (wrongly?) that parametric stats should not be done unless scales of measurement are at least interval in quality. I don't know if his objection was to parametric statistics per se, but he did object to calculating means on these

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-26 Thread Alan McLean
Jay Tanzman wrote: Jay Warner wrote: Jay Tanzman wrote: I just got chewed out by my boss for modelling the means of some 7-point semantic differential scales. The scales were part of a written, self-administered questionnaire, and were laid out like this: Not stressful

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-25 Thread Jay Warner
Jay Tanzman wrote: I just got chewed out by my boss for modelling the means of some 7-point semantic differential scales. The scales were part of a written, self-administered questionnaire, and were laid out like this: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful So, why or