Magnitude estimations of expressions of frequency and amount.

Used magnitude estimation to find the numerical equivalents of 39 expressions of frequency ranging from never to always, and 44 expressions of amount ranging from none to all. Data were collected from 175 male and female night school master's degree students, adult undergraduates, and high school juniors. Results were generalizable across 3 age-occupation levels and unaffected by topic importance. Geometric means and appropriate variance measures are provided for each expression as well as suggestions for anchors for 4- to 9-point scales. The percentage of overlap in judgments for adjacent points on scales are also given. Results are related to earlier work on scaling, and the utility of the present approach is indicated. (16 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)