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Reversing values with syntax - SPSS Tutorial
From the course: SPSS Statistics Essential Training
Reversing values with syntax
- [Instructor] Sometimes you have to just turn things around. One of the common tasks in data prep is reversing variables. So for instance, if you're doing a survey and you're measuring things on a one to seven, strongly disagree to strongly agree scale, maybe you actually need some of those to go seven to one, because higher scores should indicate more of something, and you need to adjust your data to allow for that. Sometimes when people do surveys, they intentionally reverse the direction of items so that people don't get stuck in a rut and just give five stars on absolutely everything. And so reversing scores is a fundamental task. Fortunately, it's really easy to do an SPSS. Now you can do it with the data transform functions, but I'm going to show you how to do it with syntax again, because it makes it very explicit and it makes it very repeatable. So I'm going to start with this little toy data set I've created…
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