When a Researcher Combines the "Strongly Disagree" and "Disagree" Responses

question 22

Multiple Choice

When a researcher combines the "Strongly Disagree" and "Disagree" responses on a Likert scale item to a single "Strongly Disagree/Disagree" percentage,this is an example of:

• A)data indexing
• B)collapsing the data
• C)the outlier effect
• D)a box and whisker plot

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