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it seems that the sample guttman scale is of little use, as the first 4 categories are all such that each is implied by the subsequent (i.e. allowing immigrants next door automatically implies you'd allow them in your neighborhood [unless you're in a weird border case where nextdoor isn't in your neighborhood]).
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What in hell does that mean? "difficulty" seems to mean there "items" are some sort of tasks that someone is to do. That's just a guess. A guess! Why should the reader have to guess? Then "a person scoring a "7" on a ten item Guttman scale".... So a Guttman scale is something on which someone scores points. Why can't the article just say so instead of leaving us to surmise this. Is this about sports? Tennis, maybe? Or chess? Then: "An important property of Guttman's model is that a person's entire set of responses to all items can be predicted from their cumulative score because the model is deterministic." Really? So someone named "Guttman" has a "model". I still don't know if this is about tennis or weighlifting or academic performance on physics examinations or what.
What a mess. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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I understand what an unfolding model is. How would you call a Guttman scale? I thought that Coombs made a distinction between dominance models and proximity models. An unfolding model would then be equivalent to a proximity model and the Guttman scale would then be a special case of a dominance model. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.83.33.64 ( talk) 11:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
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it seems that the sample guttman scale is of little use, as the first 4 categories are all such that each is implied by the subsequent (i.e. allowing immigrants next door automatically implies you'd allow them in your neighborhood [unless you're in a weird border case where nextdoor isn't in your neighborhood]).
This article now begins like this:
What in hell does that mean? "difficulty" seems to mean there "items" are some sort of tasks that someone is to do. That's just a guess. A guess! Why should the reader have to guess? Then "a person scoring a "7" on a ten item Guttman scale".... So a Guttman scale is something on which someone scores points. Why can't the article just say so instead of leaving us to surmise this. Is this about sports? Tennis, maybe? Or chess? Then: "An important property of Guttman's model is that a person's entire set of responses to all items can be predicted from their cumulative score because the model is deterministic." Really? So someone named "Guttman" has a "model". I still don't know if this is about tennis or weighlifting or academic performance on physics examinations or what.
What a mess. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Intelligence Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 02:04, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
I understand what an unfolding model is. How would you call a Guttman scale? I thought that Coombs made a distinction between dominance models and proximity models. An unfolding model would then be equivalent to a proximity model and the Guttman scale would then be a special case of a dominance model. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.83.33.64 ( talk) 11:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
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