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Instruments and scoring

Instruments and scoring

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Instruments and scoring

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- Finally, we have our last video on survey curation, where we are going to focus on instruments and scoring. So, what's the difference between surveys and instruments? No, not that kind of instrument. I don't mean a musical instrument. An instrument is actually a special kind of survey. That's more like it. Okay, both surveys and instruments ask opinion questions. Like, having you rate your service on a scale of one to five. And, they can ask about facts, like, what is your marital status? But then you, as the analyst have to interpret the answers. What if I say my service was a four? Is that good or bad? Should it be five? And what if I say I'm single? What does that mean? Maybe I have a roommate? So, it actually isn't all that straight forward. Well, instruments are kind of like scientific versions of surveys where some of that ambiguity is researched out of them. They are developed by researchers. Normally…

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