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BI‐POLAR AND UNIDIRECTIONAL SCALES
Author(s) -
THOMPSON JOHN W.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1963.tb00858.x
Subject(s) - guttman scale , psychology , polar , scaling , cognitive psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , developmental psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , astronomy
By comparison with physics, the dynamic aspects of psychological measurement have not received sufficient attention. In psychology there is a need for categories that are fundamentally bi‐polar as well as for single unidirectional categories. The consequences are discussed ( a ) for the overall classification of scales, and ( b ) for the application of Guttman scaling techniques.