Thurstone Scaling
From the perspective of a person whose attitudes, behaviors, or knowledge are being assessed with a survey of some sort, an attitude scale might seem little more than a series of questions or statements (stimuli) to be answered. For a researcher, however, the instrument used to gather these data is the end product of a process involving considerable reflection on a psychological construct of interest and culminates in a grouping of items that provide material information about people's beliefs and opinions. The process of psychological scaling itself is the measurement and quantification of attitudes, attributes, or traits, and many approaches to this process are available to researchers that vary with respect to both theoretical underpinnings and how they are applied in practice. Among these ...
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Reader's Guide
Descriptive Statistics
Distributions
Graphical Displays of Data
Hypothesis Testing
Important Publications
Inferential Statistics
Item Response Theory
Mathematical Concepts
Measurement Concepts
Organizations
Publishing
Qualitative Research
Reliability of Scores
Research Design Concepts
Research Designs
Research Ethics
Research Process
Research Validity Issues
Sampling
Scaling
Software Applications
Statistical Assumptions
Statistical Concepts
Statistical Procedures
Statistical Tests
Theories, Laws, and Principles
Types of Variables
Validity of Scores
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