SOAN 2120 Lecture : WEEK 1 PROF SIMILLIE
15 Feb 2012
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Indexes, scales (ordinal or interval measures) and typologies (nominal measures: measurements need to be inclusive (each measurement must have a category to fit in) and mutually exclusive (each measurement can only fit onto one category) I. e. flipping a coin; can"t have heads and tails at once, but need to have one. I. e. getting age; asking one question and getting an answer. Both are ordinal measures at minimum; can be constructed to be interval measures. To create an index of overall political activism, we might give people 1 point for each action they took. Persuaded someone to change her/his voting plans. Here, some actions represent different degrees of activism (i. e. running for mp > than simply voting). Also, that they took one of the demanding actions insinuates that they did easier" ones as well. Help determine if a set of items constitutes a scale. Index & scale: differences: the way scores are assigned:
