Reliability of Estimates of Return Rates as a Measure of Public Attitudes to Violence

Abstract

An analysis of letters placed in Mobile, Alabama and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (ns= 500 and 600) showed return rates among the several addresses were essentially uncorrelated (rs= −.11 to .08) so interpoll reliability is lacking.

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