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Whenever I start a new research project, I have to dig through innumerable survey questions to find rating scales that other projects found sensitive enough to get statistically valid results. The only standard psychological measures are very expensive and usually pertain to mental illness.

I generally end up copying existing surveys, although this is generally considered fair use I don't care to dance around copyright. Is there a StackOverflow/PatternLibrary/Best Practices compendium of this sort of information?

Maybe StatExchange can be used for this...

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@user1689 As much as I'd like to be able to ask questions along the lines of "what is the best free psychological test to measure X?", this seems to me to be outside the scope of this site. – Jeromy Anglim Oct 24 '10 at 9:01
This question belongs on meta; since migration is currently not working, please repost it there. – mbq♦ Oct 24 '10 at 10:25
I can't post to Meta, I don't have the reputation points... – Indolering Oct 24 '10 at 19:16
Don't think of it as the best psychological test test, but what is the most statistically valid test of X... That's a real stats question. – Indolering Oct 24 '10 at 19:18
perhaps there needs to be a behavioural or social sciences stackexcange: area51.stackexchange.com – Jeromy Anglim Oct 25 '10 at 9:01

closed as off topic by mbq♦ Oct 24 '10 at 10:25

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