Twice in different items, Henry punningly suggested that an opponent of his views was playing "devil's avocado", and this must surely soon become the title of a series in which he is sent into a different broadcasting institution each week – The Archers, Question Time, Doctor Who – with the challenge of producing the first totally non-white edition.
In contrast, incongruent trials included displays in which a given participant's anchor points appeared in different items (e.g., incongruent trials for a participant biased toward tall-dark items included trials with [dark-short light-tall] and [light-tall dark-short] configurations).
This information is required to match the items to the patient's individual level and supports inter-individual comparisons, even when patients filled in different items.
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In addition, if different items have contradictory levels and directions of association with each predictor, making inferences about the construct may be difficult or impossible.
Of the 160 items included in the item bank, one was removed because it was worded differently in two different item sets.
Referring to the stolen phone, a staff member said: "When a case is opened, and this results in a different item being shipped back to you, it can make the situation even more unsettling".
In easy trials, the different item stood out and was readily identifiable, whereas the difficult trials required greater effort.
Where some but not all items display such DIF, it is possible to treat them as a different item in each country.
