RE: How to best deal with severely skewed data

I would like to look at the interaction effect of 2 independent
categorical variables on continuous dependent scale scores (calculated
as means). The difficulty is that the data is not normally
distributed. The dependent variables are very skewed towards positive
responses (scale runs from 1-4, there are no 4 responses and very few
3s).

I tried several transformations (square root, log, negative
reciprocal, & rank) but still did not get a normal distribution. Does
anyone have suggestions on what I should try next? Any references
would be a huge help.

Thanks,

padinora
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