Question

A friend of yours is trying to develop an index to reproduce respondents' patterns of responses. you tell your friend to:

Answer 1

It is impossible to create an index based on the respondents’ pattern of responses. This is because an index is only used to measure the gauge of a person’s extent to which they agree or disagree with a statement. It cannot be used to reproduce patterns.

Therefore I will tell my friend that “it cannot be done”.