Optimal number of response categories in rating scales: reliability, validity, discriminating power, and respondent preferences
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- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Acta Psychologica
- Vol. 104 (1) , 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-6918(99)00050-5
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