The smaller the number of response categories, the more a correlation between latent continuous variables will tend to be attenuated.

The five response categories are often believed to represent an Interval level of measurement.

Patients in response categories 4-9 should be considered as failing to respond to treatment (disease progression).

Matrix questions - Identical response categories are assigned to multiple questions.

The questions are placed one under the other, forming a matrix with response categories along the top and a list of questions down the side.

The response categories represent an ordinal level of measurement.

From their responses, slight alterations to some of the questions were made and the response categories were refined.

Thus, these reports only address testing specific to the first objective - testing of alternative questions, response categories, etc.

In addition, Forsyth shows that nonconformity can also fall into one of two response categories.

Also the Japanese tend not to choose extreme response categories.