Preliminary Assessment of Format-Specific Central Tendency and Leniency Error in Summated Rating Scales
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 54 (1) , 227-234
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1982.54.1.227
Abstract
Data for 4-, 5-, and 7-position Likert formats from 292 undergraduates showed systematic error varied among formats, i.e., central tendency errors tended to increase with increasing numbers of categories and to reduce variances expected.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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