POSC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Recode
3 Dec 2018
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We look at the most extreme responses i. e. most liberal and most conservative people. Items where the extremes agree we eliminate from our scale i. e. items where liberals and conservatives agree. These items clearly don"t distinguish liberals from. Ranges from 0 1 (we want 0. 8 or better) conservatives. To what extent do the questions in your scale relate to each other i. e. extreme liberals strongly agree on the same questionsextreme conservatives strongly disagree on the same questions. Things to do before making a scale. How to evaluate average scales in spss (cronbach"s. But firstbefore you try to create your own scaleyou must make sure you have cleaned up your dataset so that it is ready for this . If you don"t tell spss that it should treat certain values as missing it will mess up your additive/average scales. Make sure the response options for your variable makes sense for the scale you are creating.
