Effects of Verbally Labeled Anchor Points on the Distributional Parameters of Rating Measures
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Applied Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 8 (1) , 49-57
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014662168400800106
Abstract
The hypothesis was examined that the negative skew found in most distributions of performance rat ings is a function of the verbal labels used as anchors. When verbal labels quantified on the basis of the range of real-life performance were employed, distri butional parameters (means, skewness) were affected. Typically used sets of labels were shown to be more negative than believed, thus tending to force responses toward the high end of the scale and thereby contrib uting to negative skew.Keywords
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