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shawnbanasick / kade

KADE is an open-source application for the analysis of Q methodology data. See detailed description below. ⬇️
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Unforced Q-Sort #21

Open JoWo336 opened 2 months ago

JoWo336 commented 2 months ago

I don't know how to deal with my unforced data set. I didn't give my participants any guidelines, they were allowed to sort freely. As a result, some participants put 5 statements on the "4", while others put 10, for example.

How do I deal with this in the XLXS Type 2 file? As I have understood, this is intended for unforced data. In the "pattern" spreadsheet, however, I don't know how to deal with this if there is no clear number for each Q sort column.

Does anyone have an idea or the same problem? @shawnbanasick

Thank you!

shawnbanasick commented 2 months ago

You can create an idealized sample Q sort pattern for your statements and input that into the Excel sheet. It will mainly affect how the composite factor visualizations are displayed in the analysis results