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Heiser, Willem J. – Psychometrika, 2004
Categories can be counted, rated, or ranked, but they cannot be measured. Likewise, persons or individuals can be counted, rated, or ranked, but they cannot be measured either. Nevertheless, psychology has realized early on that it can take an indirect road to measurement: What can be measured is the strength of association between categories in…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Classification, Sociometric Techniques, Geometric Concepts