A Friend of Yours Is Trying to Develop an Index

question 30

Multiple Choice

A friend of yours is trying to develop an index to reproduce respondents' patterns of responses.You tell your friend to:

• A)construct a Guttman scale.
• B)construct a Likert scale.
• C)construct a Thurstone scale.
• D)construct any one of the above.
• E)it cannot be done.

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