Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Paired Comparison Method	Successive Pile Sorting
Πεδίο	Anthropology	Anthropology
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1988	1988
Δημιουργός	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney)	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney)
Τύπος	Elicitation procedure for scaling or ranking items by a single criterion	Elicitation procedure for hierarchical structure of a cultural domain
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Method of Paired Comparisons, Pairwise Comparison Task, Pair-Comparison Ranking, Pairwise Judgment Elicitation	Hierarchical Pile Sort, Successive Sorting Task, Multi-Level Pile Sort, Successive Free Pile Sort
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The paired comparison method is a systematic elicitation technique in which informants are shown every possible pair of items from a set and asked, for each pair, which member better fits a single criterion — which is sweeter, more dangerous, more prestigious, or more similar to a reference. Because every item is judged against every other item, the procedure forces fine, transitive discriminations that a one-shot ranking would blur. Aggregating the pairwise verdicts across informants yields a dominance or proximity matrix from which a stable rank order or an interval scale can be recovered.	Successive pile sorting is an extension of the single-level pile sort in which informants first divide a set of items into a few broad piles and then repeatedly subdivide each pile into finer groupings (or, in the lumping variant, repeatedly merge piles into coarser ones). Recording the level at which any two items first become separated yields a graded similarity measure that captures the hierarchical structure of a cultural domain, not just a single flat partition.