The Issue of Whether to Include a Neutral Response Alternative

question 36

True/False

The issue of whether to include a neutral response alternative in a dichotomous question is best decided on the basis of the proportion of the respondent group who are truly neutral.

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Definitions:

Population Variances

The measure of how data points in an entire population are spread out.

Population Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a population data set, reflecting how much the members of the population differ from the population mean.

Ratio

A quantitative relationship between two numbers, indicating how many times one value is contained or can contain the other.

Sample Variances

A measure of the variance (spread or variability) within a sample data set.