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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Analysing Items

This term doesn't refer to items of clothing or dreams but rather the compulsory subject of "Basic Questionnaire Design" and item analysis. I have never had the most logical of minds and try as I might this aspect of my studies is almost getting the better of me. Even the concept of "reverse scoring" is hard for me to comprehend - I have always had a forward orientation, so to try and imagine why a statement needs to be looked at differently statistically from what it appears to be grammatically is very new to me. I think it might be time to phone a friend to answer that million rand question, but then again, it may well be time to hone a different side of the brain!

At least the questionnaire has been answered and all those hours of pondering
phrases and statements has borne fruit.

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