G. Kalton, Julie Roberts, D. Holt, The Effects of Offering a Middle Response Option with Opinion Questions, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 29, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 65-78
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