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A Note on the Interpretation of the Guess Who Test in the Study of Sociometric Choice Behaviour
Author(s) -
PRITCHATT DERRICK
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00410.x
Subject(s) - psychology , sociometric status , test (biology) , sociometry , interpretation (philosophy) , social psychology , correlation , mathematics , computer science , paleontology , geometry , biology , programming language
A previous finding of a high correlation between Guess Who and Sociometric Tests was confirmed, but this correlation obscures the fact that individual choices on these tests were not consistent. This was partly due to the fact that many of the characteristics of the Guess Who seemed to have little real significance to the children. However, even when they were allowed to give their own characteristics of a good friend, they still rarely attributed them to their own sociometric choices. It is argued that Guess Who characteristics can tell us very little about the reasons for sociometric choice.