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Subject: Re: Jittering interval and ordinal variables in graphs. was "What
> Art, this should help in chasing down the other articles in the series:
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http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/collection/stats_reporting?page=1>
http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/collection/stats_reporting?page=2>
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> Art Kendall wrote
>> I really like the idea
>> of jittering for interval e.g., Likert,
>> and ordinal variables.
>> Especially since they are often operationalizations of� constructs
>> that are continuous.
>>
>> the article says that it is part of a series.� I'll try to chase
>> them down when I get some time.
>>
>> Art Kendall
>> Social Research Consultants
>> On 1/29/2013 8:47 PM, Andy W wrote:
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>>
>> Ahh! This is the point I was making by advocating the jittered
>> scatterplot,
>> how exactly do you make the box-plots for the categories with only 1 and
>> 3
>> observations! Box-plots are certainly reasonable with more data, but with
>> this few of points jittered scatterplots work quite well.
>>
>> To each his own whether or not people feel the "artefact" in the jittered
>> plot is unreasonable. IMO it is only unreasonable as much as you consider
>> it
>> reasonable to think of the ordinal scores as specific to the particular
>> arbitrary numeric values you assign them to begin with. And it is
>> certainly
>> not anymore a complicated topic to discuss how to interpret the jittered
>> plot than any correlation coefficient!
>>
>> For reference with synonymous situations, please read
>>
>> Drummond, Gordon B. & Sarah L. Vowler. 2011. Show the data, don’t
>> conceal
>> them <
http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2011.205062> . The
>> Journal of
>> Physiology 598(8): 1861-1863. PDF available from publisher.
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>>
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