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Calculating Polarization
How can we enumerate the polarization of a party system, or the polarization of opinions? Polarization exists when the population are divided in their opinions. If we measure these opinions on an...
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Leik’s Measure of Ordinal Consensus
In 1966 Robert K. Leik introduced a measure of ordinal consensus based on cumulative frequency distributions. It can be used to express agreement or polarization, just like Cees van der Eijk‘s measure...
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Measuring Consensus
I have mentioned Cees van der Eijk’s measure of agreement before, and Leik’s measure of ordinal consensus. Unsurprisingly, others have come across this issue, discontent with the widespread use of...
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New Version of R Package agrmt
This week, a new version of the R package agrmt saw the light of day. I have been contacted because one of the functions in the package didn’t produce the right answers. I really appreciate this (the...
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Calculating Agreement, Consensus, Polarization in R
I have just uploaded a new version of the R package agrmt to R-Forge. The package implements various measures to enumerate the degree of agreement, consensus, or polarization among respondents. Apart...
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Measuring Polarization Updated
I have just updated my R-package to measure agreement, polarization, dispersion — whatever you want to call it — in ordered rating scales to R-Forge. Version 1.40 includes more extensive documentation...
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New version of R package agrmt on CRAN
I have just pushed through a new version of my R package agrmt to CRAN. It fixes a silly typo in the code that broke the MRQ() function. Tagged: agreement, polarization, R, software, update
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How to Measure Agreement, Consensus, and Polarization in Ordinal Data
A new working paper with Clem Aeppli on SocArXiv. We look at different measures to capture agreement, consensus, polarization, whatever you want to call it — in ordinal data. Using simulations and an...
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