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Re: st: Nominal or ordinal?
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"John F Hall" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Nominal or ordinal?
Date
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:17:23 +0200
Fascinating thread, but do the data actually warrant such sophistication?
I'd like to know much more about the data, even more about the research
question. What is being evaluated by the "likely" scale? Propensity of
teenage readers of a magzine to buy a beauty product, people stopped in a
shopping mall to purchase a health insurance scheme or unemployed people's
perceived likelihood of finding a job?
How many predictor variables are being used and what are they? How many
cases are there: 10 or 1,000? Is it a probability sample or a "sugging"
exercise?
As John Tukey once said, "All the statistics in the world won't save you if
you asked the wrong question in the first place." (Does anyone have a
reference for that? I saw it in the front of a (?statistics
textbook/software manual?) book once.
John Hall
[email protected]
http://surveyresearch.weebly.com
"Sugging" - selling under the guise.
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