Anthony DeGrassi asked 200 students about individual forms of physical exercise they have seriously tried
He asked questions about: (1) bicycling, (2) swimming, (3) jogging/long-distance running, and (4) weight training [free-weights or exercise machines]. When he looked at the results he found that a large majority of those who tried weight training previously had tried bicycling, swimming, and jogging. At the same time, joggers usually had tried swimming and bicycling, but not weight lifting. Also, many of those who bicycle had never tried any other form of exercise listed. With this type of result, what scaling technique should you recommend he use to organize the information?
A) Borgadus Social Distance Scale
B) semantic differential
C) Harrison's scale
D) Likert scale
E) Guttman scaling
E
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