At 04:11 PM 2/27/02 -0500, Rich Ulrich wrote: >Categorizing the values into a few categories labeled, >"none, almost none, ...." is one way to convert your scores. >If those labels do make sense.
well, if 750 has the same numerical sort of meaning as 0 (unit wise) ... in terms of what is being measured then i would personally not think so SINCE, the categories above 0 will encompass very wide ranges of possible values if the scale was # of emails you look at in a day ... and 1/3 said none or 0 ... we could rename the scale 0 = not any, 1 to 50 as = some, and 51 to 750 as = many (and recode as 1, 2, and 3) .. i don't think anyone who just saw the labels ... and were then asked to give some extemporaneous 'values' for each of the categories ... would have any clue what to put in for the some and many categories ... but i would predict they would seriously UNderestimate the values compared to the ACTUAL responses this just highlights that for some scales, we have almost no differentiation at one end where they pile up ... perhaps (not saying one could have in this case) we could have anticipated this ahead of time and put scale categories that might have anticipated that after the fact, we are more or less dead ducks i would say this though ... treating the data only in terms of ranks ... does not really solve anything ... and clearly represents being able to say LESS about your data or interrelationships (even if the rank order r is .3 compared to the regular pearson of about 0) ... than if you did not resort to only thinking about the data in rank terms >-- >Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html > > >================================================================= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the >problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ >================================================================= Dennis Roberts, 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park PA 16802 <Emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm AC 8148632401 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
