Thanks for posting this! I hadn’t looked at the date. My daughter will be relieved.

And: Radical idea: don’t use “agree” vs “disagree”. What are you trying to measure? Confidence? Satisfaction? Word directly to measure that. Agreement continuum adds a layer of cognitive difficulty.

Thx Beth! Here’s what I responded on X: Dillman has done lots of experiments evaluating such item response options / alternatives. Regarding your original question, if you are developing items for combination into a composite, the goal would be to write all items so that they ARE applicable to all.

Contact Angie Henneberger at UM Baltimore… (first author). I believe she may have them (in suppression reviewed state).

We recently provided attrition (school mobility) info from Maryland: link.springer.com/content/pdf/.... Can’t help you for NC though.

Very cute! Do you consider the experiment successful? (Can’t taste them from here…)

I’m so sad that there have been no replies. I still have an embosser last spring but I felt like a very old person doing so!

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As chair, I have implemented a “Reply all jar”. You owe me $1 if you reply all unnecessarily and $2 if you sent the source message with the dept list Serv on the to: line instead of bcc: has worked like a charm!

Brain caps are *the* *best*! I wear mine all the time! Thank you for bringing your research to the community!