8. Click Item-Total Statistics. Examine the Corrected Item-Total Correlation column, and you will see that the corrected item total correlation for I4 is .161. This is not good. Usually the corrected item-total correlations should be about .40 and higher. Also look at the far right column labeled “Cronbach’s Alpha if Item Deleted” and note that the alpha would rise to .897 if the item were deleted. These results tell us that I4 does not belong in the scale, so we need to take it out. Here’s what we do next: