Linkages research methodology workshop
Dr Ronald Fischer, Fellow at the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research (CACR), Victoria University of Wellington, and Professor Johnny Fontaine, of the University of Gent, the Netherlands, presented at a Linkages-funded research methodology workshop hosted by CACR.
The February workshop was on the use of multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) analysis in cross-cultural research. Survey research involving more than one cultural group routinely faces two problems. The first is whether the items are understood and interpreted by all groups in the same way, and the second concerns the question of how data can be interpreted if some items are applicable for some groups but not others. MDS tools are powerful instruments for evaluating equivalence in these circumstances.
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