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Alright, thanks to everyone else as well!
fadedbadger73: I dealt with Plutchik quite some time ago, if that happens to be the test in question, though I honestly can't recall the specifics of how it was structured.
Dear Rebecca Scott3 and gentlesailor25, my thanks to you both.
I am a psychologist currently working on translating a questionnaire from English into American
I would appreciate some input from my fellow psychologists, as well as any English specialists or linguists out there, regarding the translation of a response scale
The original version uses false, mostly false, neutral, mostly true, true
My translation was incorrect, generally incorrect, neutral, generally correct, correct
An English specialist performed a back-translation (translating my American version back into English)
They rendered it quite elegantly as "incorrect, generally incorrect..."
It just occurred to me that I chose "correct" simply because that is the standard convention we use here in the States
However, I find myself without a substantive argument as to why "correct, generally correct" should be superior to "true, generally true..."
I decided to plug both versions of the scale into Google to see which one yields more hits
The version using "correct" returned about six pages
While the "true" version yielded a single solitary link, and even then, it was just a paper by some English scholars🙂
Now I am left wondering: why shouldn't I just use "true"?
What are your thoughts on this entire situation?