Sentence examples for ends of the response from inspiring English sources

It has been proposed that younger children who find Likert scales difficult, may navigate to the ends of the response scales in order to reduce the responses to essentially a yes/no answer [ 18].

A strength of this study was the large sample size tested relative to previous treatment response gene expression profiling studies and the use of samples from extreme ends of the response spectrum, which resulted in greater power to detect the same effect size as previously reported in the study of adalimumab-treated patients [12].

Across the scales and summary scores, for both healthy children and children with a chronic health condition, the percentage of scores at the floor and ceiling was not greater for children in the younger age groups, suggesting that children of younger ages were not navigating to the ends of the response scales, reducing them to essentially yes/no answers.

The end of the response was thus set as the time the membrane potential equaled the initial resting potential for the first time following the light-evoked hyperpolarization.

The distribution of the answers to most items was skewed toward the higher end of the response scale (Table 2).

Descriptive statistics revealed a general positive skew towards the well-being end of the response scales (Table 2).

Floor and ceiling effects were defined if the majority of scores were distributed at either end of the response scale [ 30].

Input resistance was assessed by measuring voltage deflection at the end of the response to a hyperpolarizing rectangular current pulse (500 ms of −10 to −50 pA).

This immune response is characterized by a large proliferative burst, followed by the eventual death of most effectors at the end of the response, and the survival of a cohort of memory CD8 T cells.

Each item shows negative skewness to varying degrees except for the item "Subjective Rating of Health", indicating the majority of respondents' responses clustering at the upper end of the response spectrum as mainly healthy status [ 7, 30].

Although medical students actually responded using the entire range of possible scale values on all CHBQ items, the associated item means suggest that responses were skewed toward the higher end of the response scale.