Sounds like it would be very interesting work. Much of what used to be call psychophysics overlaps with mathematical psych which has a discussion list. to sign up [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to post [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find info other than from sci.stat.edu or mpsych-l, would you please share it. Hope this helps. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] Social Research Consultants University Park, MD USA Bruce Weaver wrote: >Hello group, > "Subjective correlation" came up at a meeting yesterday. We >discussed having subjects examine several scatterplots, with and without >outliers present (varying how influential they are, etc), and asking them >to plot "best fitting" straight lines (which we could then compare to the >least squares line and various other best fitting lines). It seemed to me >that someone must have done this already though--it sounds a lot like the >stuff you see in psychophysics. Can anyone point me to published studies >on this general topic? One lead I have so far is to some work by Michael >Birnbaum--he has a paper with "subjective correlation" in the title, but >I've not had time to retrieve it from the library yet. > >Cheers, > > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
