6. Drug Survey: "Against" Item Fit

Observe that the against items are now all strongly correlated, and fit together. In Table 10.5, we see that "No-aspirin" has provoked 5 unexpected responses.

TABLE 10.1 Against Drugs Items                    against.out Apr 12 15:43 1999
INPUT: 39 PERSONS, 20 ITEMS  ANALYZED: 39 PERSONS, 10 ITEMS, 5 CATS        v2.91
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

         ITEMS STATISTICS:  MISFIT ORDER

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|ENTRY    RAW                        |   INFIT  |  OUTFIT  |SCORE|               |
|NUMBER  SCORE  COUNT  MEASURE  ERROR|MNSQ  ZSTD|MNSQ  ZSTD|CORR.| ITEMS         |
|------------------------------------+----------+----------+-----+---------------|
|    11    133     39   -1.15     .17|1.94   3.3|1.97   3.0|A .47| A:no-aspirin  |
|     2    116     38    -.75     .17|1.37   1.5|1.51   1.9|B .47| A:dangerous   |
|     5     87     39     .14     .17|1.28   1.2|1.26   1.0|C .61| A:not use     |
|     3     71     39     .70     .20| .84   -.6|1.05    .2|D .34| A:regret      |
|     4    109     39    -.47     .16| .96   -.2| .90   -.4|E .65| A:unnatural   |
|     6     86     39     .17     .17| .94   -.3| .86   -.6|e .60| A:psycho      |
|    17     99     39    -.20     .17| .89   -.6| .89   -.5|d .58| A:stupid      |
|    14     89     39     .08     .17| .62  -2.2| .63  -1.8|c .59| A:care-givers |
|    19     53     39    1.78     .30| .62  -1.3| .56  -1.5|b .51| A:side-effects|
|    20    103     39    -.31     .16| .55  -2.7| .55  -2.4|a .80| A:dope        |
|------------------------------------+----------+----------+-----+---------------|
| MEAN     95.    39.     .00     .19|1.00   -.2|1.02   -.1|     |               |
| S.D.     22.     0.     .77     .04| .40   1.7| .43   1.6|     |               |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

TABLE 10.5 Against Drugs Items                    against.out Apr 12 15:43 1999
INPUT: 39 PERSONS, 20 ITEMS  ANALYZED: 39 PERSONS, 10 ITEMS, 5 CATS        v2.91
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MOST UNEXPECTED RESPONSES
  ITEM              MEASURE  |PERSON
                             |1 12212 23
                             |69253593878
                          high-----------
    11 A:no-aspirin   -1.15 A|2.1.11.....
     2 A:dangerous     -.75 B|.1.......44
    17 A:stupid        -.20 d|.......4...
     5 A:not use        .14 C|........4..
     6 A:psycho         .17 e|.....5.....
     3 A:regret         .70 D|...4..4....
                             |-------low-
                             |19122123238
                             |6 25359 87

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