Questions about safety generated categorical answers (yes or not), whereas quality was assessed by a question with categorical answer addressing visibility (normal/compromised) and a question with quantitative reply addressing general quality, ranging between 1 and 10 (best), as a Likert scale.
We have updated the manuscript to include far more quantitative analysis, see replies to Reviewer 2 comments 1-4 above.
To evaluate ethnically specific channels on reach, a quantitative impression of reach was generated using reply cards and logging of phone calls received by the health educator.
Hempel replied that even the existence of a quantitative measure of evidential support poses no challenge to his conclusion that the paradoxical cases non-black non-ravens, sucases non-blackes—are confirmatory.
For example, checklists have been adapted from quantitative criteria [ 12], have been an attempt to reply to the scepticism and distrust of qualitative work [ 32], and were created in competition for research funds [ 32].
Asked at the Treasury select committee this afternoon about the prospect of "quantitative easing" if interest rates fell to 0%, the chancellor replied: "We will look at the situation when we need to".
When it was put to him that in 2009 he had described quantitative easing as the "last resort of a desperate government", he replied: "We inherited as a government a desperate fiscal position and we have to take action.
Only 17 authors replied (31% response rate) and so we were not able to perform formal quantitative analysis on the survey results.
The questionnaires consisted mainly of quantitative and categorical answering options, but also some open questions with the opportunity to comment and give more extensive replies.
My assistant, Joseph Burgess, analyzed Reply All for the period of March 6, its date of inception, through Oct. 9 to get a quantitative understanding of the shift away from traditional identity in letters from readers.
