Thank you very much. This is extremely helpful!
Best,
Lainie
You're not really missing anything. Generally speaking, when you take a 'quiz' in a reader's digest or the like, they are generally coded so that A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4. The more you spread out the values, the easier it is to stratify the responses, but the harder some poor shnook who is self marking himself has to work.
Generally speaking, the answers should show a spectrum of
the 'trait' you're looking for, ranging from A to D.
So, if a person answers with 3 A's and 2 B's, they are an A/B person.
If they answer with 1 A, 2B, 1C, 1D, then who the heck knows what they are, and they will wind up between B & C, which is about as accurate as you're going to get with 5 questions.
So, if you use the scoring above, you'll know that a '5' in total is a solid A and a 20 is a solid D. a 19 can only be achieved with 4 'D' answers and 1 'C', so the person is still essentially a D.
If you map out the possibilities, you'll begin to realize that 18-20 is a 'D' type, 13-17 is a C type, 8-12 is a B type. 5-7 is an A. Obviously, the numbers closest to the edge will hardly be a scientific judgemnt.
You can chose to use 10, 100, 1000, 10000 and it will become a bit more obvious where the person lies because you will know EXACTLY how many A's, B's, C's and D's the person answered and you can decide exactly what overall mark to give them.
Just a few thoughts that I hope help.
Kil
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Lainie Wolf <lainiewolf702@y...>
wrote:
Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this model enough to set
the "if you score is in this range, this means..." (For the
purposes of the rest of this email, I'll call the ranges "buckets.")
Here's what I'm finding confusing: I''d expect the "A" bucket to
have a low numerical range (starting with a score of 5); the "B"
bucket to have a higher numerical range; the "C" bucket to have
still a higher range; and the "D" bucket to have the highest range
(topping out at 5000).
If you answered all the questions with an "A," your score would be
5. If you answered all the questions with a "D," your score would
be 5000.
Logically, since there are five questions, if at least three of
your answers were the same, that 'majority answer' should dictate
the bucket you get placed into.
But what happens when the answers vary?
If you answers were 3 As and 2 Ds, your score would be 2003 (and
you'd probably wind up in the "C" or "D" bucket). If you scored 3
Bs and 2 As, your score would be 32 (and you'd probably wind up in
the "A" bucket).
What am I missing?
Thanks again for your help.
Lainie
cdfsrule <groups.yahoo@v...> wrote:
Not a math expert either, but all you need is an orthogonal
encoding scheme. A particullary simple one is to use arbitray base
number system, for example:
A =10^0 = 1
B= 10^1 = 10
C=10^2 = 100
D= 10^3 = 1000
Not pretty, but it works. You can easily use any base >= 5 (and
many
different series of exponents).
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Lainie Wolf" <LainieWolf@h...>
wrote:
> The quiz consists of five questions, and each question has four
possible answers. > Thanks for your help!
> Lainie
>
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