The Tendency to Assign Similar Scores to Items That Are

question 76

Multiple Choice

The tendency to assign similar scores to items that are near each other on a questionnaire is called

• A) harshness bias.
• B) similarity bias.
• C) proximity bias.
• D) central tendency.

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