You check to make sure that “Whether or not someone enjoyed apple juice” is put at 1 or 2 or you throw out the participant. Otherwise, you keep the response.
There are a few other tactics. Another one is to have a question like “I consider myself optimistic” and then later have a question “I consider myself pessimistic” and you check to see if the answers are in an inverse relationship.
Another one is to have a question like “I consider myself optimistic” and then later have a question “I consider myself pessimistic” and you check to see if the answers are in an inverse relationship.
And if they are, you mark the person as bipolar :-D
What cut of criteria would you use with those questions to avoid cherry picking of data?
You check to make sure that “Whether or not someone enjoyed apple juice” is put at 1 or 2 or you throw out the participant. Otherwise, you keep the response.
There are a few other tactics. Another one is to have a question like “I consider myself optimistic” and then later have a question “I consider myself pessimistic” and you check to see if the answers are in an inverse relationship.
And if they are, you mark the person as bipolar :-D