That's the right answer, but is Karen asking the right question?
Do you really want to know the correlation between people's answers -
i.e. do people who like A also like B? Or do you want to know which
one people like best?
Jeremy
On 08/02/2008, Mann, Helen N <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In SPSS type up your data into 3 columns and label them (eg. question 1,
> question 2, question 3). Then go to analyse -> correlate -> bivariate then
> put question 1, question 2 and question 3 into the variables box. Pearson
> is the default correlation test so if you are wanting spearmans you will
> have to change it. Then press ok. Your correlations will be shown in a box
> table.
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> I hope this is what you meant?
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> Helen
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> ________________________________
> From: Research of postgraduate psychologists. on behalf of Burnell K.J.
> Sent: Fri 08/02/2008 10:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Correlations
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> Hi all,
>
> Not technically a student anymore, but wondered if I still qualified to
> receive the fantastic advice on offer.
>
> I'm trying to do simple correlations - fine in principle. For one set I'm
> trying to do, a new product taste test, people try one product and answer a
> list of taste questions, the second product and answer the same questions,
> and then a third product and answer the same questions. The order of tasting
> is counter balanced of course. Thus, there are three answers for each
> participant for each question. When I come to do the correlations, how does
> this work in SPSS?
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> Cheers,
>
> Karen
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Karen Burnell
> PhD Research Student
> School of Psychology
> University of Southampton
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Jeremy Miles
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