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THE GARNER‐ATTNEAVE THEORY OF RATIO SCALING
Author(s) -
Junge Kenneth
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1967.tb01366.x
Subject(s) - scaling , psychology , relation (database) , order (exchange) , statistical physics , epistemology , social psychology , mathematics , physics , computer science , philosophy , data mining , geometry , finance , economics
The theory is shown to be logically and psychologically untenable, being based on a first order phenomenological‐numerical (PN) relation which cannot exist. An alternative theory, not possessing this shortcoming because it involves a second order PN relation, explains both ratio and category scaling.