If ranked scores are ipsative, then
a. within any individual participant, the scores sum to a constant
b. they are especially easy to interpret
c. there must have been a flaw in the experimental design
d. nonparametric statistics must be used to analyze the data
A
This is a characteristic of ranked data.
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