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In a Q-methodological study, participants are generally presented with a set of statements about the study topic and instructed to rank these statements according to, for example, agreement, importance or preference, and to explain their ranking.
It is interesting that the two components with the lowest agreement, importance of the topic and originality of the study, both require more knowledge about a specific subject area than either of the other two subjective questions.
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Summers says he and Osborne are in complete agreement on importance of stimulating private investment, and very much in agreement in the importance of public investment.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who attended the signing ceremony to underscore the agreement's importance, welcomed it, but urged greater cooperation.
European officials said the agreement's importance went beyond Iran, because it showed that President Bush had decided to throw his support behind the effort.
In a sign of the agreement's importance to the Americans, the halls of the Iraqi Parliament were filled Tuesday with embassy staff members buttonholing Iraqi lawmakers and counting votes.
In short, the agreement's importance is not fiscal but political: It amounts to a truce in the destructive budgetary wars that have plagued Washington since the advent of a Republican-majority House in 2011.
This statement was consistently high on agreement and importance always ranked first.
Scaling methods of agreement and importance were adapted from Sim & Wright [ 21] and have been previously used and described in Delphi literature [ 2, 22, 23].
Each statement was analysed quantitatively by the percentage of agreement ratings, importance rankings and the amount of comments made for each statement, and qualitatively using thematic analysis.
We evaluated the evolution of consensus and stability by examining agreement percentages, importance rankings (based on simple descriptive statistics) and Kappa values.
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