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RECOGNITION ASSESSED BY RATING AND RANKING
Author(s) -
BROWN JOHN
Publication year - 1974
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.2044-8295.1974.tb02766.x
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , psychology , rating scale , rating system , cognition , statistics , cognitive psychology , index (typography) , pattern recognition (psychology) , artificial intelligence , developmental psychology , computer science , mathematics , neuroscience , environmental economics , world wide web , economics
Recognition tests are ubiquitous in the study of cognition. A simple index of recognition with desirable properties is the proportion R of targets preferred to distractors. The estimation of R by either a rating or a ranking method is straightforward. No distributional assumptions are involved. Three experiments are described in which estimates derived by the two methods were found to be close. The rating method is potentially subject to a bias. A preliminary account is given of calculations which suggest that the bias is small provided at least four rating categories are used.