Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale
The fundamental problem with the measurement of preferences is that it not only attempts to measure something that is, by its nature, “unmeasurable”, but also hidden from a direct observation. In addition, a person’s current emotional, material and social situation influences the measurement of pref...
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| author | Joanna Dębicka Edyta Mazurek Katarzyna Ostasiewicz |
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| description | The fundamental problem with the measurement of preferences is that it not only attempts to measure something that is, by its nature, “unmeasurable”, but also hidden from a direct observation. In addition, a person’s current emotional, material and social situation influences the measurement of preferences resulting from the person’s system of values. The paper is a study on the methodology of preference measurement, a comparison and evaluation of two methods of scale construction. Among various techniques we investigate the two methods: Thurstone procedure for finding scale separations developed by Thurstone and the simplest rank method of scaling. This study examines the relative merits of Thurstone and rank techniques of scale construction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fee626771cb34a7aa5c3fe8331eedada2022-12-22T03:17:26ZengCzech Statistical OfficeStatistika: Statistics and Economy Journal0322-788X1804-87652022-09-01102323624810.54694/stat.2022.5Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone ScaleJoanna Dębicka0Edyta Mazurek1Katarzyna Ostasiewicz 2Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, PolandWroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, PolandWroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, PolandThe fundamental problem with the measurement of preferences is that it not only attempts to measure something that is, by its nature, “unmeasurable”, but also hidden from a direct observation. In addition, a person’s current emotional, material and social situation influences the measurement of preferences resulting from the person’s system of values. The paper is a study on the methodology of preference measurement, a comparison and evaluation of two methods of scale construction. Among various techniques we investigate the two methods: Thurstone procedure for finding scale separations developed by Thurstone and the simplest rank method of scaling. This study examines the relative merits of Thurstone and rank techniques of scale construction. https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/167607763/32019722q3_236-248_debicka_analyses.pdf/53c94a20-c879-4544-a0da-eb5d4aeb96ed?version=1.1preference rankingcase vthurstone modelstructure similarity testinput matrix |
| spellingShingle | Joanna Dębicka Edyta Mazurek Katarzyna Ostasiewicz Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal preference ranking case v thurstone model structure similarity test input matrix |
| title | Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale |
| title_full | Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale |
| title_fullStr | Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale |
| title_short | Methodological Aspects of Measuring Preferences Using the Rank and Thurstone Scale |
| title_sort | methodological aspects of measuring preferences using the rank and thurstone scale |
| topic | preference ranking case v thurstone model structure similarity test input matrix |
| url | https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/167607763/32019722q3_236-248_debicka_analyses.pdf/53c94a20-c879-4544-a0da-eb5d4aeb96ed?version=1.1 |
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