> From: Gerald L. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Examples of Interval Scale-
> useful purpose? I think, either drop this stuff, or devote a chapter to
> some good discussion of the problem of measurement in psych. BTW, some
I disagree. I teach a course that includes both methodology and statistics.
The measurement scale used has obvious implications in the type of analysis
the student performs. They need to learn this.
If you're teaching with a book that doesn't go into the 'problems of
measurement in psych' you're using a bad book. That is what practically the
entire course in Methodology is about.
Dave
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