As a researcher, you must also be on the alert to spot ‘comp…
As a researcher, you must also be on the alert to spot ‘completed’ questionnaires that don’t really have true responses. Consider, for example, a respondent who checked the “5” position on a five-point scale for each of the 20 items in an attitude questionnaire, even though some items were expressed negatively and some positively. Examining the questionnaire in this manner, “the process of checking and adjusting data for omissions, consistency, and legibility”, occurs during which state of data preparation?