AN AXIOMATIZATION OF THURSTONE’S SUCCESSIVE INTERVALS AND PAIRED COMPARISONS SCALING MODELS

摘要

This objection was recently summarized by Stevens [20], who insisted that the procedure of using the variability of a psychological measure to equalize scale units “smacks of a kind of magic-a rope trick for climbing the hierarchy of scales.nTwo generalizations obtained by a modification of axioms will be presented for the successive intervals situation, and the paired comparisons model will be compared with two other scaling procedures.