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WEIGHTING RESPONSES TO ITEMS IN ATTITUDE SCALES
Author(s) -
SLATER PATRICK
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
british journal of statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0950-561X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1956.tb00167.x
Subject(s) - guttman scale , weighting , pencil (optics) , computer science , scalability , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , statistics , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , database , radiology , paleontology , biology
A metrical treatment of the problem of weighting responses to items in an attitude scale is described. The procedure proposed is developed from a method suggested by Guttman in 1941 and since discarded. A test for scalability is introduced. Procedures are described for carrying out the requisite iterations either with pencil and paper or with the Hollerith machine. Various methodological problems are also discussed.