Sub-categories of questions?
Hi All,
Regarding the Results: Gender Differences data page and question development:
I just wanted to make a suggestion about interpreting the data. I wonder if it may help to classify the responses into subcategories, that is, questions/responses that are not specifically “big five” responses, or that may help us relate/categorize the responses in terms of “big five” responses.
I hope this is in line with our inquiry: I am proposing a sub-category list of the following in order to see if there are any trends on each these categories that indicate significant gender differences between respondent self-report.
While we originally had focus on activities/ hobbies and occupation, as I look over the list I see categories for:
1) activities/hobbies (ex. football, watching talk shows) 2) inter-relationship issues and preferences (ex. Romantic/ sexual preferences) 3) occupational preferences (ex. automobile mechanic, kindergarten teacher) 4) behavior and affect (ex. aggressive, hiding in scary movie)
Some of the questions could be placed in one or another of the subcategories. I quickly tabulated a list that places the questions in the categories that I see (subjectively!) and came up with numbers of questions in each of the above subcategories:
1) activities/hobbies (ex. football, watching talk shows) (12) 2) inter-relationship issues and preferences (ex. Romantic/ sexual preferences) (17) 3) occupational preferences (ex. automobile mechanic, kindergarten teacher) (5) 4) behavior and affect (ex. aggressive, hiding in scary movie) (5)
If nothing else this produces a relative weighting of question types that may be worth noting in our survey/question subheadings.
Please let me know what you all think! Is it worthwhile noting this in the paper? Can we make any correlations about the number/types of questions we came up with and the ratio of females to males in the class?
Cheers Kevin
Hi Kevin, this looks like a good observation. We don't have any statistical evidence for these different subcategories. I still think it might be good to note, probably in the discussion section, that our final scale seemed to include these different types of items.
What do other people think? Do you agree with Kevin's subcategories?
I think this sounds good, how is the progress on it? I think it is definitiley worth noting if I read that correctly because there are many more questions for hobbies and preferences vs. behaviour
Would someone like to add a note about this in the discussion section? It would be great to have another hand put this in!
Please check my latest post regarding this and maybe go over what I have done to edit it and do a final edit? I think this page is done now