On “Ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors”
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 11 (1) , 101-107
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(81)90143-3
Abstract
The cross-modality matching methods of Stevens were used by Gracely et al. and his colleagues to provide numerical values for verbal pain descriptors; these were claimed to provide reliable, objective and valid ratio-level measurement of the sensory and affective dimensions of [human] pain. Each of these claims is critically examined.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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