E C Poulton

Bias in Quantifying Judgments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1989, this volume carefully catalogues and classifies the effect of bias on quantitative judgments. Each bias is described by model and examples of this bias are given. The examples include both theoretical investigations carried out in the laboratory to study bias and practical illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781032548975
• ISBN-10: 1032548975
• Artikelnr.: 67825954

Autorenporträt

E. C. Poulton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. A New Approach to Magnitude Judgments 2.
Outline of Biases in Quantifying Judgments 3. Bias in Psychophysical
Methods 4. Subjectively Equal Stimulus Spacing and the Stimulus Spacing and
Stimulus Frequency Biases 5. Centering Biases 6. Logarithmic Response Bias
7. Contraction Bias 8. Range Equalizing Biases 9. Transfer Bias 10. Bias in
the Production of Power Functions. References. Author Index. Subject Index.