| Abstract: | Thurstone's Case III and Case V, and Guilford's Short-Cut approaches to scaling paired-comparison data were experimentally compared. The stimuli were 10 teacher-approved and 10 teacher-disapproved behavior categories presented in paired-comparison form to 4 groups of school children. Each group contained a sample of 80 Ss and represented a particular sex, experimental condition and an age-grade level in the range grades 6-12. The intercorrelation between the scale values obtained by the 3 methods were approximately unity for both sexes under both experimental conditions. "The results are interpreted as corroborative… . investigations demonstrating the power of less complicated… approaches to scaling… ." 33 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
