Confidence Scale??

• ifish

  8 Jul 07, 00:53

  Any nice scale to use to measure confidence?
  
  Your help will be very much appreciated.
  
  Thanks
• unclebutcher

  8 Jul 07, 01:50

  standard deviation?
• WiNtEr'SkiLL

  8 Jul 07, 01:51

  hmmm duno of such stuff
• eagle

  8 Jul 07, 01:53

  Confidence as in confidence to do things?
  
  or Confidence Interval as in statistics
• hiphop2009

  8 Jul 07, 01:54

  use poisson distribution.
• teraexa

  8 Jul 07, 15:59

  Measure for what?
  
  Either you have it or you do not.
• ifish

  8 Jul 07, 20:24

  Originally posted by eagle:

  Confidence as in confidence to do things?
  
  or Confidence Interval as in statistics

  confidence as in to do things
• ifish

  8 Jul 07, 20:25

  Originally posted by teraexa:

  Measure for what?
  
  Either you have it or you do not.

  well.. u cant write that on paper rite?
  
  need it to for my research proposal..
  
  need to think of a way to measure confidence
• eagle

  8 Jul 07, 20:37

  If u cannot find it on google, we will most likely not be able to find it too
  
  Since it's a proposal, we can only help in suggesting as it is still ultimately your own proposal.
  
  My suggestion will be to devise a series of questions, with each question giving you some points accordingly w.r.t. multiple choice answers; sort of similar to how MBTI or some other type of online "test".
  
  Perhaps you will then have to gather a large number of people to test... and find whether your questions follow a nice distribution.
  
  Hopefully it helps...
• ifish

  8 Jul 07, 20:40

  Originally posted by eagle:

  If u cannot find it on google, we will most likely not be able to find it too
  
  Since it's a proposal, we can only help in suggesting as it is still ultimately your own proposal.
  
  My suggestion will be to devise a series of questions, with each question giving you some points accordingly w.r.t. multiple choice answers; sort of similar to how MBTI or some other type of online "test".
  
  Perhaps you will then have to gather a large number of people to test... and find whether your questions follow a nice distribution.
  
  Hopefully it helps...

  yea..
  
  that will be the last case scenario
  
  the scale will help in saving alot of time
• eagle

  8 Jul 07, 20:46

  Originally posted by ifish:

  yea..
  
  that will be the last case scenario
  
  the scale will help in saving alot of time

  I don't think it's a last case scenario. This is because confidence is more of a pyschological thing, and thus, no simple scale can measure it.
  
  Just for example, how would you measure courage? Measure love?
  
  Even for the "measurement" of intelligence (IQ), we use questions to "measure".