In an earlier post, I had recommended the Statistics Attitude Survey. There is a very similar survey available, The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS), created by Candace Schau. Continue reading →

Dennis Roberts has a webpage with several attitude scales that have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. The fifth one on the list is a Statistics Attitude Scale, first published in 1980. It has questions like “1. Statistics will be useful to me in my profession when I evaluate other people. 2. It takes me a long time to understand a statistical concept.” but Dennis especially highlighted question 18: “The thought of taking another statistics course makes me sick.” Hah! Continue reading →

This is a classic reference that is worth re-posting. No one seems to know what to do about those pesky open-ended questions you see on a survey. This article offers practical tips on how to handle this type of data. Continue reading →