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A Revised Law of Comparative Judgment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

William P. Harris
William P. Harris*
Affiliation:
Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

In contrast to Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment, a model in which a comparison pair and its complement are assumed to give rise to two different distributions of differences is considered. The consequences of this revised model on scaling problems is developed.

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Psychometrika , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1957, pp. 189 - 198
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Copyright © 1957 Psychometric Society

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The research in this article was supported jointly by the Army, Navy, and Air Force under contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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