| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 18:33:45 GMT |
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| Reply-To: | Dean <dnelson_extra@DANENET.WICIP.ORG> |
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| Sender: | "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Dean <dnelson_extra@DANENET.WICIP.ORG> |
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| Organization: | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| Subject: | Re: SPSS Survey |
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In article <dvoelker-0405982219570001@dip454.inav.net>,
dvoelker@inav.REMOVEME.net says...
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> Yep, I noticed too, and emailed them about it. Haven't heard back.
>Unfortunately, this is going to invalidate the results, because some
>people will read carefully and use the scale as written, while others will
>use their mental schema for a bipolar scale with the extremes at either
>end.
All that is needed is a good estimate of the proportion of people falling into
each group, a good project for some enterprising graduate student.
Dean
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