Suppose We Measured Height With Rating Scales Instead of Rulers
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Applied Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 1 (2) , 267-273
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014662167700100213
Abstract
Staff members of the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon rated each other's height on five rating scales representative of those found in social psychology. When the ratings were aver aged, a very good estimate of true physical height was obtained. Further, factor scores based on all five scales proved to be even better estimates of true height; the correlation between such scores and height in inches was .98.Keywords
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