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Sorry @reason180, I meant it makes sense as an explanation for the discrepancy. I agree it does not make sense to me conceptually, hence my question!

Thank you all so much. It seems reverse scoring being done on actual, not theoretical, values seems to make sense. My question then is - when is this the preferred approach? As an experimental social psychologist, I cannot imagine a time where that is the outcome I would want, so I'm curious if anyo...

In a course, I have an assignment where students calculate a mean composite score that requires them to reverse code a few items. I explain how to do this 'manually' by reversing the items and the computing a new variable, but I know they are now able to do this within the menu for calculating scale...