Hi On 18 Nov 2003, Dennis Roberts wrote:
> well, i am not convinced that stevens and others were all that misguided > ... have a look at this "heavy reading" paper by warren sarle of SAS > > it all has to do with what kinds of statements you want to be able to make > about your analyses > > ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/measurement.html > > i would agree however that perhaps too much ado is made about this Here is a good link to some papers on both sides of the issue, including Stevens' original paper in 1946. http://www2.msstate.edu/~jmg1/8803/meas.htm I would need to spend much more time than I have right now with Warren's paper to do it justice. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
