Questions tagged [measurement]
For questions about techniques for measuring psychological and neural properties. Includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits, as well as neural structure, organization, activity, and complexity.
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Why is deltaE not used as a measure of error?
I've recently read a few articles pertaining to visual memory. Most of them (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.10.7) use the continuous color recall task where they ask participants to recall the color ...
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What is the distinction between “relationship” and “difference” in behavioural statistics?
Quoting [emphasis added] from D.C. Howell's (2012) Statistical Methods for Psychology, chapter 9 (Correlation and Regression), Pg 252:
Although you should not make too much of the distinction ...
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When the DEA says a drug is X times more potent than another, what do they mean?
E.g.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine.
What does that refer to?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potency_(pharmacology):
The IUPHAR has ...
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Efforts to create metrics of understanding and comprehension of some sentence?
Let's assume that S is some sentence (e.g. theorem). Are there efforts to quantify how well some agent (pupil, student, machine agent) understands this sentence S (or some sent of sentences)? E.g., if ...
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Can frissons provide an accurate metric to gauge emotional intelligence?
This relates to my other post Frissons on demand. As is stated in the abstract of the cited source below (which discusses voluntarily controlled piloerection), the ability correlates with personality ...
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Impact of pre-college schooling on IQ (WAIS)?
Introduction
I'll give context for my question from personal experience, but then I'll generalize my question so that it's broadly useful.
When I was a child, my mother home schooled me. When I ...
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What are the methodological differences between a ‘constructed’ and a ‘standardized’ psychological test?
What are the methodological differences between a ‘constructed’ and a ‘standardized’ psychological test?
This was a question asked in the exam. Kindly help me understand the key differences.
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How do you encourage participants to pay attention while completing online studies?
I'm conducting research where participants come into a lab and complete a study entirely on a computer (about 10-15 minutes). This means that informed consent, instructions, manipulations, and ...
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Set of uncorrelated cognitive tests for self quantification and tracking
I self track partly to optimize intelligence and productivity. Cognitive tests are good proxy of both. I tried all the tests in "time of day" experiment at quantified-mind and many seem to test the ...
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What time range between 2 measures for test-retest reliability?
How much time between 2 measurements is needed (at least / at most) to be called test-retest reliability?
Concrete casus:
I am planning a meta-analysis on reliability of various loneliness scales. We ...
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Can anyone help me in choosing the suitable statistical analysis for my research?
I have conducted an experimental research last week. The research topic is about Influence of Voice Assistants on Satisfaction, Attitude and Purchase Behaviour.
I had 46 participation in total and 23 ...
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Is there a specified way to shorten the number of questions in an instrument/questionnaire?
If you have found a fitting instrument that measures your interest and has been validated but is a bit too long, what can you do to shorten it?
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How do you reduce the number of questions ...
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Is autism prevalence increasing? [duplicate]
The CDC has been rapidly increasing its estimate of children with autism for years. It's tripled in the past 15 years.
This has lead to a lot of speculation, including dramatic claims like vaccines ...
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How to measure child to adult development quantitatively?
Are there any tests available that could quantify a personal development from child to adult if the development is more or less healthy and is not considered pathological?
I'm absolutely new to the ...
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How is intelligence in children measured?
Intelligence is dependent on mental age and education. So how can an IQ test be performed to check the mental/intellectual capabilities in children?
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Fit a psychometric function when the maximum is not 100% (not because of lapse)
I found that currently the form of psychometric function assumes that the proportion correct lies between 0.5-1 given the range of stimulus level, but how to fit a psychometric function when the ...
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Bounds on skew and kurtosis of IQ
The question of whether IQ is Normally distributed, or instead follows e.g. a Pearson type IV distribution, has been debated since at least the 1910s. The quotient- and deviation-based definitions ...
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Getting useful readings out of GSR sensors while moving?
I'm currently thinking about a project that would involve using a GSR sensor and an Arduino (Probably the Grove GSR Sensor) to measure Stress levels in a person.
It will not be a research project, ...
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Free-to-use parenting style questionnaire
I'm working on a master's thesis in UX design that I might want to turn into a commercial project later on. The subject matter is use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in parenting.
For the research ...
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Reference signal when measuring EEG
When performing EEG, a number of electrodes are placed on the scalp to measure the electric potential difference between those locations and a reference. In the unipolar configuration, the reference ...
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How do psychologists ensure they are measuring innate intelligence and not just education?
Certain groups perform worse on IQ tests than other. How do psychologists ensure that those differences aren't purely related to differing levels of education between those groups?
How do we know ...
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What pro- or anti-environmental behaviors are feasible to measure objectively rather than with self-report?
One of the central challenges in understanding pro-environmental behavior is measurement. Currently, most researchers (including myself) lean on self-report of behavior.
I'm looking for a brainstorm. ...
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Help to find the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ)
I'm looking for the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) as per ICD-11 proposals, but I can not find it. It was previously called the
ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ). Can someone help me?
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Why don't the Big 5 personality traits have more neutral names?
Lots of different areas of study appropriate common-language terms as jargon words with a specific meaning in the context of that particular field, but the names of the Big 5 personality traits have ...
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Survey questions to test competitiveness
I'm running an experiment and am suspecting that competitive people may respond differently to experimental treatments compared to non-competitive people.
To determine whether a person has a ...
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How to ask in a survey for emotional vs. rational personality
In a survey I would like to find out the correlation between different factors based on the personal dimension "being more emotional vs. rational".
Are there any known studies with items that could be ...
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Paper discussing economic rationale of IQ-based hiring practices
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I'm looking for a paper that explicitly quantifies the ROI an employer would likely derive if personnel selection involved intelligence testing and only those +2 SD in cognitive ability were ...
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Differences in Cognition, Theory of Mind and their criteria
I´m writing an essay about the ToM in animals. My Problem is that there are a few hints of ToM in animals but there are also some interferences. I tried to set up a conclusion which uses Morgan's Law ...
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Is there a psychological scale/measurement that can be used to determine how much of a 'victim mentality' the subject has? [closed]
Is there an accepted test/scale/measurement/etc that can be used to measure how much of a 'victim mentality' the subject has?
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What techniques can be used to differentiate between correlation and causation?
Psychology is unique among other medical sciences in that it cannot ask test participants to like, prefer or support something. As such a vast body of psychological studies are purely observational ...
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Cognition of people born by C-section vs born ordinarily?
Has there been any research comparing the cognition of people born via C-section to people born vaginally?
During a vaginal birth, the baby's head is pressured and deforms somewhat in order to make ...
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Reason for Inter-stimulus-Interval in psychology studies
In many of the studies that I have read or participated in, I have seen that they show a blank screen between two stimuli. For example, in a study by Cohen et al. (2017), a training paradigm was used ...
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Classical test theory: Covariance of two variables
I'm stuck with the definition of the Covariance in the classical test theory (CTT) framework:
In CTT it is assumed that for two items:
$X = \tau_x + \epsilon_x$
$E(X) = \tau_x$
$Y = \tau_y + \...
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Participant compensation and engagement in online studies
In research studies, it is common to compensate the participant for their time/effort by giving them monetary compensation. Is there any research on whether the amount someone is paid for ...
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How do you randomize within a Qualtrics form without breaking timing?
My current survey has a number of blocks. Each of those blocks contains a bunch of questions, each on their own page with a page break, and each with an associated timing question to limit time spent ...
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What does it mean statistically for there to be significant differences in average IQ scores between racial groups?
Charles Murray (in his book, "The Bell Curve") reported that there are real differences between the mean IQ scores of different racial groups. He also points out that IQ variation within said groups ...
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What is restriction of range correction formula when you don't know standard deviation of unrestricted group?
What is the restriction of range formula if you don't know the standard deviation of the unrestricted group is?
For instance, you run a selection process, 1st stage is a cognitive ability test and ...
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What are the correlation between the Big 5 (OCEAN) dimensions of personality?
I'm looking for quantitative research on the correlation between the five dimensions in OCEAN psychometric models. Would appreciate any references.
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Are psychometrics used in the public sector? [closed]
If it is used, how is it used? Where is it used? Which countries are using?
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The origin of the term “construct” in the cognitive sciences
So, I was just wondering - who can be attributed as originating the idea of a "construct" in psychology? Does the general concept of an epistemic "construct" feed directly into the way the term is ...
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Ability to identify an “average” vs a maximum (or minimum)?
I have a hypothesis that humans are better able to identify the largest (or smallest) in a set of objects, compared to their ability to identify an average object, i.e. the one closest to the mean.
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How are commercial psychometric instruments or content protected legally? [closed]
I understand the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is registered.
What are the limitations for individuals and other business wishing to utilise the MBTI without a license to do so.
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Validity of the “Common Factors” perspective
Research and practice in psychotherapy has been deeply influenced by two different approaches:
the Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs) movement, due to the development of Evidence Based Medicine (...
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Is synchronization between the MRI scanner and the stimulus presentation necessary for every trial?
I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated facial emotion expressions.
I've seen a lot of studies that synchronize the ...
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How to implement an incidental processing task without a fMRI-compatible response box?
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I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated facial emotion expressions. My supervisor and I are discussing ...
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Multiple-stratum intelligence models
My question concerns the mathematics of multiple-stratum models, about which I've not found much that's quantitative, so excuse my inventing my own notation to explain my thoughts.
In models such as ...
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How do different emotional intensity ratings within a condition influence the comparison across different conditions in an event-related fMRI task?
I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated expressions. For this, we recorded videos of 4 different actors posing fearful ...
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How to prevent falling for Jingle-Jangle fallacies?
What are some ways to avoid the Jingle-Jangle fallacies when it comes to choosing a form of measurement in psychology research?
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Are there dual-process IQ tests?
I mean tests that try to measure system 1 and system 2 performance separately, but more than short lists of trick questions which unfortunately seem to make the bulk of the empirical work in this dual-...
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What is the best unobtrusive and objective method to measure mental workload?
What is the current research/industry standard on measuring mental workload using objective measurements (e.g. EEG, eye-tracking)?
Do you have any suggestions for specific tools and techniques?
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