 Measurement and Data
An introduction to
the measurement and construction of data. As you may realize, data is
not simply "collected." It is constructed. And data can be constructed
from data, as when we build indices and multi-item scales.
Topics
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Scales of measurement
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Measurement
validity
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Standardizing data
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Indices versus
scales
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brief mention of
multi-item scaling,
such as thurstone, guttman, likert, magnitude
Handouts
Articles
- Dawes, R.M. 1977. "Suppose we measured height
with rating scales instead of rulers."
Applied Psycho-logical Measurement 1(2):267-273 [^pdf]
- Chatterjee & Hambrick. 2007. It's All about Me:
Narcissistic Chief Executive Officers and Their Effects on Company
Strategy and Performance. Administrative
Science Quarterly; Sep2007, Vol. 52 Issue
3, p351-386 [^pdf]
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Optional
- Wikipedia. Weight. [html]
- Trochim. Unidimensional scaling [php]
(skim -- will be covered in depth later)
- Sarle. Measurement Theory: Frequently Asked Questions. [html]
Quotations
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“after a century of theory and research on
psychological test scores, for most test scores we still have no
idea whether they really measure something, or are no more than
relatively arbitrary summations of item responses”
-- Borsboom, 2005
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