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Better Turn the Other Cheek: The Tragedy of Electoral Boycott and Protest
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. The data set, coder’s translation, technical description of the data set and its
indicators as well as the data set itself, and background data are freely available from the author
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Such measures, however, does not mitigate against subjectivity or incoherent scoring by coder. Allcoding was done by the author. That has advantages and disadvantages. Ceteris paribus singlecoder is arguably more likely to apply scoring criteria in a more coherent manner than severalcoders. That is the main advantage. On the other hand, double-blind coding procedures, forexample, can be used both to crosscheck reliability of scores and for inconsistencies in the scoring.None such inter-coder reliability tests have been performed. While it had obviously been desirable,there have simply not been any funds available for such procedures. The few missing values thatexist are as far as discernable, randomly distributed and induce no bias in the sample. All processingwas done in SPSS 11.0.2 for Macintosh using standard and basic techniques such as cross-tabulation and univariate means analysis. In the calculation of means, the geometric mean is usedinstead of the arithmetic mean. The reason being that the geometric mean is not as sensitive tooutliers and skewness as its arithmetic cousin is (Blume 1974, Datton et al. 1998).
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Unfortunately, due lack of resources the author did all of the coding; needless to say, no inter-coder reliability test has
been performed.
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http://www.svet.lu.se/Staff/Personal_pages/Staffan_lindberg/Staffan_lindberg.html
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22
translation book
10
. The data set, coder’s translation, technical description of the data set and its
indicators as well as the data set itself, and background data are freely available from the author
11
.
Such measures, however, does not mitigate against subjectivity or incoherent scoring by coder. All
coding was done by the author. That has advantages and disadvantages. Ceteris paribus single
coder is arguably more likely to apply scoring criteria in a more coherent manner than several
coders. That is the main advantage. On the other hand, double-blind coding procedures, for
example, can be used both to crosscheck reliability of scores and for inconsistencies in the scoring.
None such inter-coder reliability tests have been performed. While it had obviously been desirable,
there have simply not been any funds available for such procedures. The few missing values that
exist are as far as discernable, randomly distributed and induce no bias in the sample. All processing
was done in SPSS 11.0.2 for Macintosh using standard and basic techniques such as cross-
tabulation and univariate means analysis. In the calculation of means, the geometric mean is used
instead of the arithmetic mean. The reason being that the geometric mean is not as sensitive to
outliers and skewness as its arithmetic cousin is (Blume 1974, Datton et al. 1998).
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Unfortunately, due lack of resources the author did all of the coding; needless to say, no inter-coder reliability test has
been performed.
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http://www.svet.lu.se/Staff/Personal_pages/Staffan_lindberg/Staffan_lindberg.html
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