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POW The article currently only lists reasons for NOT using ipsative questions. Is this not bias? There are plenty of ipsative questions out there and most likely there is a good reason for this. Ipsative questions can be of value if the questions is very difficult to answer and you want to force the respondent in to making a choice. This can be relevant if there is a tendency for pleasing bias. Consider two likerttype questions: To what degree are you able to maintain a close frienship with a/ caucasians b/african americans? In this situation many will answer that they are very able to maintain frienship with both categories. An ipsitive answer forces the respondent to choose.... Some times this is good. Sometimes this is bad.

Ipsative test can sometimes helt prevent faking. Se eg. this link —Preceding unsigned comment added by Achristoffersen (talk • contribs) 10:50, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Further: if a and b are considered mutual exclusive, ipsative test can be a good idea.

Although I agree this represents possible POV bias, I don't believe there has been any edit warring over this (not that you're claiming otherwise). Therefore, it would typically be more productive to fix the article than to put a POV tag on it. Anyways, I'll look into finding good sources to address your valid concern. Ben Hocking ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)