"Donald Burrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, William Levine wrote:
>
> > I am teaching an Introduction to Statistics course in psychology, and
> > in class the other day, I brought up the issue that SAT scores and IQ
> >
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, William Levine wrote:
> I am teaching an Introduction to Statistics course in psychology, and
> in class the other day, I brought up the issue that SAT scores and IQ
> scores may not really be interval scales.
Mmm. Well, Bill, if they aren't "really" interval scales, wha
In article <8o6564$7d3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"William Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Without raising the specter of what IQ and SAT tests really measure, does
> anyone have any comments that might be helpful in telling students what to
> think about this?
The concepts of interval and ordin
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:00:03 -0400, "William Levine"
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> I am teaching an Introduction to Statistics course in psychology, and in
> class the other day, I brought up the issue that SAT scores and IQ scores
> may not really be interval scales. My TA pointed out that they a
here is one clue do you think that the difference in ability between
someone with an IQ of 100 compared to someone with an IQ of 110 ... has the
same meaning as the difference between a person with an IQ of 140 ... and
one with a 150?
At 12:00 PM 8/25/00 -0400, William Levine wrote:
>Hell
Hello,
I am teaching an Introduction to Statistics course in psychology, and in
class the other day, I brought up the issue that SAT scores and IQ scores
may not really be interval scales. My TA pointed out that they are
*standardized* tests, and that the intervals really are designed to mean
som
