Assignment
I. Why is inter-rater reliability important?
II. Input your age data into SPSS and find the real correlation. You will do this with two variables yours and your partners. My variable would be Age_SJ and my partner would be Age_XX. Then, find the Pearson's correlation (you use this statistic just for continuous variables)
i. analyze
ii. correlate
iii. bivariate
Select the continuous variables you want to correlate. In our example, select Age_SJ and Age_XX.
What was the correlation?
III. Input your categorical variable the same way
i. select analyze
ii. select descriptives
iii. select crosstabs
iv. put Categorical_SJ in rows
v. put Categorical_XX in columns
vi. click on statistics
vii. click on kappa; then continue
viii. Click Okay and view the output.
ix. What was your kappa?
IV. Was the inter-rater reliability between your rating and your partner's higher or lower than you would expect? Was it higher for one variable or another? What contributes to a higher correlation or a lower correlation?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
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