Dante used a public scale for an experiment in his sociology class to examine satisfaction with community resources. Dante realized that some of the questions are written inversely. He is trying to determine a way to sum participants' responses on the scale so that a higher number accurately reflects a higher degree of satisfaction with community resources. Dante should use:
A) reverse-coding.
B) acquiescent response set.
C) dummy coding.
D) distractor items.

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Reverse-coding is used to ensure that higher numbers consistently reflect higher satisfaction, even for inversely written questions. This technique involves flipping the scale for these specific questions so that responses are aligned with the direction of the scale used for other items.

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