Gunnar developed a scale to measure attitudes toward feminism.He discovered a pattern of responses among his items such that if he knew the scale score (the number of items someone agreed with),he could accurately predict which items that person agreed with.Which scale type did he use?
A)Thurstone scaling
B)Likert scaling
C)semantic differential
D)Guttman scaling
E)Bogardus social distance scale

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Gunnar used Guttman scaling, also known as "scalogram analysis," which is based on the idea that if someone agrees with one item, they are likely to agree with others that are similar. The items are ordered from least to most extreme in terms of the attitude being measured, and respondents are asked to indicate which ones they agree with. The responses are then analyzed to see if they match a pattern of agreement that would be expected if the items are ordered correctly. This type of scaling is useful for measuring attitudes that have a logical order, and it allows for the prediction of which items someone would agree with based on their total score.

Gunnar Developed a Scale to Measure Attitudes Toward Feminism