This sure seems like a well written set of very politically charged questions. Thank you for stepping into the gap where I sure would not have added anything by myself.
Right now I’m tempted to replace most of section 14: Bonus Politics Questions and replace it with your set here. There’s eleven questions there now, of which the only two I like are “If you are an American, what party are you registered with?” and “How would you describe your level of interest in politics?” Do your twenty work as a set, or do you by chance have a favourite ten?
Context of that last question: if you had clear favourite ten, I could keep the two bonus politics questions I liked and replace the others with your ten, giving us 12 instead of last year’s 11. At ~22 I’d want to make cuts elsewhere to try and keep the length from growing too much.
Do your twenty work as a set, or do you by chance have a favourite ten?
The factors work as a set; they have been selected based on a factor analysis of over 400 statements, to capture things which influence as much of one’s worldview as possible. But this makes the item lists for each factor essentially arbitrary, such that they can be easily substituted or expanded or shortened, without changing the core idea much.
I guess if you want to shorten it by 2x, you could remove the 2nd and the 4th item for factor 0, 1, and 2; and remove the 3rd and the 4th item for factor 2, and remove the 2nd and the 3rd item for factor 4. I wouldn’t recommend this though as the items are usually only 0.4-0.6 correlated with the factors, so to obtain more accurate measurement of the worldview, more items would help. (With 4 items that each have a correlation of 0.5 with the underlying factor, the scales’ correlation with the factor would be 0.76; meanwhile with only 2 items, it would be 0.63.)
I would not like if the question “If you are an American, what party are you registered with?” were one of very few politics questions. It is too country-specific.
This sure seems like a well written set of very politically charged questions. Thank you for stepping into the gap where I sure would not have added anything by myself.
Right now I’m tempted to replace most of section 14: Bonus Politics Questions and replace it with your set here. There’s eleven questions there now, of which the only two I like are “If you are an American, what party are you registered with?” and “How would you describe your level of interest in politics?” Do your twenty work as a set, or do you by chance have a favourite ten?
Context of that last question: if you had clear favourite ten, I could keep the two bonus politics questions I liked and replace the others with your ten, giving us 12 instead of last year’s 11. At ~22 I’d want to make cuts elsewhere to try and keep the length from growing too much.
The factors work as a set; they have been selected based on a factor analysis of over 400 statements, to capture things which influence as much of one’s worldview as possible. But this makes the item lists for each factor essentially arbitrary, such that they can be easily substituted or expanded or shortened, without changing the core idea much.
I guess if you want to shorten it by 2x, you could remove the 2nd and the 4th item for factor 0, 1, and 2; and remove the 3rd and the 4th item for factor 2, and remove the 2nd and the 3rd item for factor 4. I wouldn’t recommend this though as the items are usually only 0.4-0.6 correlated with the factors, so to obtain more accurate measurement of the worldview, more items would help. (With 4 items that each have a correlation of 0.5 with the underlying factor, the scales’ correlation with the factor would be 0.76; meanwhile with only 2 items, it would be 0.63.)
I would not like if the question “If you are an American, what party are you registered with?” were one of very few politics questions. It is too country-specific.