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Effects of Scale Direction on Response Style of Ordinal Rating Scales

By: Mingnan Liu and  Florian Keusch  
Open Access
|Feb 2017

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Language: English
Page range: 137 - 154
Submitted on: Jun 1, 2015
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Accepted on: Aug 1, 2016
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Published on: Feb 21, 2017
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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