A minority of Britons, to put it mildly, agree with Mr Miliband on this.That was one of three moments that either could or, in one case, almost did, have a significant impact on Mr Miliband's prospects of becoming prime minisiter.
Agreement: (1) very much agree; (2) strongly agree; (3) mildly agree; (4) mildly disagree; (5) strongly disagree; and (6) very much disagree.
Ratings on the scale were defined in 'mm' as 0 9 (very strongly disagree), 10 19 (strongly disagree), 20 29 (disagree), 30 39 (moderately disagree), 40 49 (mildly disagree), 50 (undecided), 51 59 (mildly agree), 60 69 (moderately agree), 70 79 (agree), 80 89 (strongly agree), 90 100 (very strongly agree).
60percentt strongly agreed and 16percentt mildly agreed.
The 5 response options are: not at all (disagree), mildly (agree), moderately (agree), severely (agree) and extremely (agree).
All IITQ items had a 6-point response scale (strongly disagree = 0, disagree = 20, mildly disagree = 40, mildly agree = 60, agree = 80, strongly agree = 100).
The SLSS contains seven context-free items rated using a six-point scale: (6 = strongly agree; 5 = moderately agree; 4 = mildly agree; 3 = mildly disagree; 2 = moderately disagree; 1 = strongly disagree).
In addition to the three "disagree" response options (1 to 3), the "mildly agree" response option was also recoded as "no", and only the "agree" and "strongly agree" options were recoded as "yes".
A standard dichotomization of the Likert scores was conducted so that the disagreement scores (1 to 3; strongly disagree, disagree, mildly disagree) were converted to a score of 0 to indicate "no", and the agreement scores (4 to 6; mildly agree, agree, strongly agree) were converted to a score of 1 to indicate "yes".
To address the issue of a possible acquiescence bias introduced by the Likert scale used in 2005, a conservative recoding was used in addition to the standard dichotomization of the 2005 responses, so that "mildly agree" responses were no longer considered as agreement with the CAM motivations.
However, even with a more conservative recoding which did not include "mildly agree" within the agreement category, there remained significant differences for five of the six CAM motivations examined, with ineffectiveness of conventional medicine as the only motivation that was endorsed by a similar proportion of CAM consumers for each time point.
