Question: You have conducted a study with 120 participants (60 female, 60 male) about the relation between attitudes toward cohabitation prior to marriage (on a 30-item scale) and self-reported sexual behaviors (on a 20-item scale). Most respondents filled out both scales completely. Everyone completed the scale assessing attitudes toward cohabitation, but 1 partici pant indicated the highest possible score on every item on both scales and finished very quickly. In addition, 13 women and 4 men failed to complete the 20 questions about sexual behavior. Of these, 9 women and 2 men did not respond at all to the questions about sexual behavior; 3 women and 1 man answered just 10 of these questions; and 2 women and 1 man failed to answer just 1 item.
a. What are the possible causes of incomplete data on the sexual behavior scale?
b. What choices do you have regarding the missing data on the sexual behavior scale?
c. What do you recommend for the participant who reported the highest possible scores on every item on both scales?
d. Explain why you would or would not report your decisions in your write-up of this experiment.