[Bug]: The Likert scale (answer options) is not fully enumerated.

[romanogino]

JASP Version

0.18.3

Commit ID

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JASP Module

Unrelated, Descriptives, Other

What analysis are you seeing the problem on?

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What OS are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 11

Bug Description

In my scale of choices, there were from 1 to 6, but no one answered that, they only answered from 2 to 5. So they don't appear in the choices to code, but I need to show that those choices of 1 and 6 were present for the choice. Perhaps there is som activation button that I have checked before...

Expected Behaviour

I expect the entire scale from 1 to 6 to appear, even if some options have not been checked.

Steps to Reproduce

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Log (if any)

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Final Checklist

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• I have included a JASP file (zipped) or data file that causes the crash/bug, if applicable.
• I have accurately described the bug, and steps to reproduce it.

[tomtomme]

@romanogino
At the moment JASP can not know which numbers or strings comprise the full scale of a variable. There is no button to tell JASP "this should be likert scale from 1-6" and no button that could add missing numbers of a scale. This is also a problem for "automatically" reverse coding of variables. I pointed this out here:
#2325

I would not consider this a bug, but a missing feature that probably would need following fields to be set by the user for each variable:

• Minimum value of the scale
• Maximum value of the scale
• stepsize within the scale

This could make sense for ordinal and scale data. Joris Goosen already explained in #2325 that this might be implemented in the long run. Not in the short run, because it would require quite some work within the GUI.

[JorisGoosen]

I was thinking more along the lines of an R-field where you write a function that converts x -> level you want by applying it in order to the labels as they are. (So the default formula would just be X (maybe better i or level)

This would also allow for non-linear scales etc