Levels for ordinal variable

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18039202
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Levels for ordinal variable

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Hello,

I am looking for some assistance, I have three ordinal variables (Likert scales) from -3 to +3, jamovi has put them as 1-7 for all except one which it has put as 25-31, does anyone know how I can change this? It is skewing my mean calculations.

Thanks,
Evee
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jonathon
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Re: Levels for ordinal variable

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hi,

you can transform or recode that variable. more info here:

https://blog.jamovi.org/2018/10/23/transforming-variables.html

cheers

jonathon
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Re: Levels for ordinal variable

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Hi Jonathon,

Thanks for this :)

I have looked over the information and tried to transform the variable however it did not seem to like it, how would i recode the variable?
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Re: Levels for ordinal variable

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the easiest way would be to create a computed column, and set the formula to:

variableName - 24

cheers

jonathon
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Thanks !
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