Alan
I entirely agree that SPSS can handle the data! Thankyou for confirming this.
Re. previous response. Ambiguous? It seems perfectly clear to colleagues and myself that the sentence meant "Yes! SPSS can handle 50,000 survey forms!".
Thanks for your time - we are merely amateur stattos that have have an (arguably) sad hobby!
Regards
RF
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> From: "R. Allan Reese" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2002/12/20 Fri PM 12:57:33 GMT
> To: rdmfitzmaurice <[log in to unmask]>
> CC: Allstat UK list <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Appropriate Software
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> Isaac Dialsingh [log in to unmask] asked:
> > whether SPSS can handle a survey with 50,000
> > questionnaires. If not, can you recommend suitable software?
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, rdmfitzmaurice wrote:
> > There is no question that SPSS can handle this amount of data!
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> What a wonderfully ambiguous sentence! One can also write: There is no
> question BUT that SPSS can handle this amount of data! That would have the
> exactly opposite meaning.
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> The answer to Isaac's question is yes, it can.
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