All of the following are legitimate arguments for assigning ...

[s.tung]

All of the following are legitimate arguments for assigning numbers to the response categories of a verbal rating scale except
 a. a neutral point is needed to allow respondents to demonstrate indifference to an issue
  b. the researcher believes the respondents' judgments can be treated as interval data
  c. numerical labels can help guide the respondent as the progression of the categories and demonstrate the scale is indeed ordinal, not merely a nominal set of labels
  d. the numbers correspond to some quantity explicitly represented in the question itself, such as a frequency

Question 2

A stratified sample in which the sample size for each stratum is allocated according to analytical considerations is called a(n) _____.
 a. disproportional stratified sample
  b. unbalanced stratified sample
  c. secondary stratified sample
  d. analytical sample

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Answer to Question 1

A
The issue of whether to include a neutral point is pertinent to the decision of whether to use an odd or even number of categories, not to whether the categories are numbered.

Answer to Question 2

A

[s.tung]

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