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Download full textCarroll, John B. – 1971
The subjective magnitude estimation (SME) procedure was used to obtain estimates of relative word frequency from two adult groups (15 lexicographers, 13 other adults) for 60 words ranging widely in objective frequency. Lexicographers rendered more reliable estimates, and their averaged data correlated more highly with objective log frequency than…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis, Individual Differences
