Maria Is Constructing an Index from a Range of Four

question 12

Multiple Choice

Maria is constructing an index from a range of four responses to a question about job satisfaction. She asks your advice about how to weight the responses toward a score on job satisfaction. Which of the following would be the best advice?

• A)Maria should weight the answers with the most responses the most heavily.
• B)Maria should weight the extreme cases higher than those in the middle.
• C)Maria should weight the cases in the middle higher than those on the extremes.
• D)Maria should weight each answer equally unless there's a compelling reason not to.
• E)There is no general rule of thumb to give Maria.

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