Levels of Measurement and Political Research: An Optimistic View
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in American Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 43 (1) , 271-301
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2991794
Abstract
This paper argues that all measurement is theory testing. Therefore, measurement always constitutes a tentative statement about the nature of reality. Some gene...This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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