"Kenneth M. Steele" wrote:Consider the following questions...
>
> I. The contents of CUP A taste:
>
> +-------+-------+-------+------+-------+-------+
> extremely extremely
> bitter pleasant
>
> --VS--
>
> II. The contents of CUP A taste:
>
> +-------+-------+-------+------+-------+-------+
> extremely extremely
> bitter pleasant
>
> It would still seem to me that version II provides more steps
> between the extremes and this is where most responses would lie.
> More steps means that there is more opportunity to capture
> systematic differences, whether you are doing within or
> between-S comparisons and whether you treat the measures as
> ordinal or interval. SO it may be true that you are more likely
> to see the choice of an "extremely" item in version I, but you
> still have lost resolution among the middle items.
>
> Can these practitioners cite empirical work on this scaling
> issue?
>
At the conference talk - no. But I am e-mailing the speaker (Linda
Bartoshuk) for some papers to read on the scaling issue.
>
> And what is beyond "extremely"????
>
Yes - it's not very logical!
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