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Where would you place yourself on this scale, where 0 means the left and 10 means the right?" In addition to this linear measure of ideology, we also grouped the scale into 'Left' (21.9%) consisting of the first four categories, 'Right' (24.7%) containing the last four categories, and 'Middle' (53.4%), comprising the three middle categories, for ease of interpretation and presentation.
Of interest, responses in our study were primarily at the floor or ceiling of items, rather than in the middle categories.
This variable was collapsed from five categories to three categories for multivariate analysis: "low" and "low middle" categories were combined into "low," and "middle" and "upper middle" categories were grouped into "middle".
The two middle categories were merged together into one category since the initial results showed that these two groups responded in a similar way.
The middle categories, namely above normal, normal and below normal, generally contain more calls as most calls are made for simple requests.
This observation is in accordance with previous studies of neutral middle categories (e.g., Undecided, ?, and Not sure) in Likert type response scales [ 19, 41, 42].
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