How do I conduct psychology research using multidimensional scalogram analysis?

Question

I have read brief descriptions of MSA, so I know that it is based on plotting the relationship between the items of the analysis. What I'm not sure about is how do you get these items? What are they based on? Since MSA is quantifying qualitative data I assume that you obtain your original data through interviews. Do you get your items from the transcripts of the interviews? If so, how do you decide what should be an item or not? Many thanks for any help.

Answer 1

SURELY you are on the wrong website.
Yahoo Answers is only good for asking random non life-changing useless questions !
Good luck though.

Answer 2

Hi
If you base it purely on items from interview transcripts, I doubt if you will arrive at the full picture.
I feel that a bigger notion is required.
Personal judgement naturally plays a big factor.
Many an analysis has been based on observation of behavior patterns., and many have proved true.
I personaly feel that simply talking to folks, and picking p the feel of stuff is more important than trying to deeply think about the human conditions one meets.
I am an ex-mad fun lover, so I say to myself. Hey, I've fallen off motorbikes, fallen off jet-skis. But what the heck.
So folks that go through MSA do not, in my humble opinion, need vast amounts of quantifification.

ie Don't worry about it all.

Bob.

Answer 3

I would be surprised if you get a great answer from Yahoo! Answers on this - I would recommend instead looking through www.quirks.com for additional resources, directly contacting someone at a quantitatively-oriented marketing research firm through the firm directory on quirks.com, or doing more Internet research specific to psychometric analysis.

Answer 4

Goodness what ever are you talking about!

Answer 5

whatever