The 1990 McCall, Belli, and Madjidi Statistics Attitude Scale was administered to 43 postgraduate education students in Transkei at the end of a course on research methodology. Analysis showed that the scale had high internal consistency and was a valid measure of attitudes toward applied statistics when used in a different cultural setting.
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