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A New Scaling Technique for Absolute Judgments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Burton S. Rosner
Burton S. Rosner*
Affiliation:
West Haven V. A. Hospital and Yale University
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Abstract

The results of an experiment using the method of absolute judgments can be viewed as a matrix of conditional probabilities in which the rows represent stimuli and the columns responses. The cosine of the angle between two row vectors is a measure of the similarity of the corresponding stimuli. This cosine provides the basis for a method of scaling the stimuli. Unlike the method of paired comparisons, this new technique does not require arbitrary fixing of a unit of measurement. A numerical example is given.

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Psychometrika , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1956 , pp. 377 - 381
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Copyright © 1956 The Psychometric Society

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