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Guttman Scale

Guttman scaling is a methodology for constructing unidimensional scales with a cumulative property, developed by Louis Guttman in 1944. The method assumes that items form a perfect or near-perfect hierarchy: if a respondent endorses a harder item, they must endorse all easier items below it. This creates a reproducible scale structure useful for measuring constructs with ordinal properties such as difficulty, intensity, or severity.

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Louis Guttman's Cumulative Unidimensional Scaling Method
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / psychometrics
  • Guttman, L. (1944). A basis for scaling qualitative data. American Sociological Review, 9(2), 139-150. · DOI 10.2307/2086306
  • Guttman, L. (1950). The basis for scalogram analysis. In S. A. Stouffer et al. (Eds.), Measurement and Prediction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. · URL
  • Menzel, H. (1953). A new coefficient for scalogram analysis. Public Opinion Quarterly, 17(2), 268-280. · DOI 10.1086/266460
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