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The “Idealized Individual” Interpretation of Individual differences in Multidimensional Scaling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Norman Cliff
Norman Cliff*
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University of Southern California
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Abstract

It is shown that several variants of the Tucker-Messick points of view procedure are interpretable in terms of their “idealized individual” concepts. It is contended that the main function of the method is that it allows the computation of several vectors of mean judgments instead of only one and that each of these may be used to stand for the actual judgments of a subgroup of subjects. Vectors that do not correspond to the judgments of any subjects are to be avoided. It is alleged that Ross's interpretation of “points of view” is quite different from that intended by Tucker and Messick.

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Psychometrika , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1968 , pp. 225 - 232
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Copyright © 1968 The Psychometric Society

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The preparation of this paper was supported in part by Contract Nonr-228(32) between the Office of Navel Research and the University of Southern California.

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