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Thurstone Scaling

Thurstone Scaling, formally the Law of Comparative Judgment, is a psychometric model introduced by Louis Leon Thurstone in 1927 for deriving interval-level scale values from pairwise comparison data. By assuming that each stimulus evokes a normally distributed discriminal process on a psychological continuum, the method converts proportions of preference judgments into z-scores and recovers the latent positions of stimuli, enabling rigorous attitude and preference measurement.

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Thurstone Scaling (Law of Comparative Judgment)
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • Thurstone, L. L. (1927). A law of comparative judgment. Psychological Review, 34(4), 273–286. · DOI 10.1037/h0070288
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