The pattern of responses (Table 5A.10) shows that while more than 25% of the subjects selected the lowest scale point, more than 2/3 selected something else. In fact, the answers were quite distributed across the scale points. A couple of possible interpretations of non-low-endpoint reponses may be made. First, the subject may have correctly realized that Chartmaster was incapable of non-numeric charts but did not properly understand the ratinq scale.