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Subjective Geographic Distance: A Multidimensional Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Ulf Lundberg and
Gösta Ekman
Ulf Lundberg
Affiliation:
University of Stockholm
Gösta Ekman
Affiliation:
University of Stockholm
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Abstract

The interdistances between thirteen places situated in different parts of the world were estimated by 60 subjects. The estimates were analysed by Kruskal's multidimensional technique and, after a cosine transformation, by factor analysis. It was found that both methods yielded the same three-dimensional solution. Also a two-dimensional configuration could describe the data, and it was shown that this configuration contained representations of unidimensional ratings obtained in other studies.

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Psychometrika , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 1973, pp. 113 - 122
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Copyright © 1973 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This investigation was supported by grants from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund and the Swedish Council for Social Science Research.

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Died 5 May 1971.

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