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Comparing the Incomparable: An Essay on the Importance of Big Assumptions and Scant Evidence
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1999.tb00277.x
Subject(s) - psychology , epistemology , social psychology , sociology , positive economics , economics , philosophy
What are we doing when we make a comparison between two groups of people“ How is this comparison complicated when the two groups do not take identical sets of items“ What can be said about the groups if they take no items in common?