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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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 happens at sampling rates lower or higher that the Nyquist rate?
I do understand that for a signal to be properly sampled, it has to be done on the Nyquist sampling rate. What I do not understand is, what happens at sampling rates lower rate than the Nyquist rate, ...
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What is a good measure of self-regulation?
Is there self-regulation or self monitoring test. I am interested in measuring why people are not commited to their goals (quit smoking, dieting etc) so you can suggest another measure instead of self-...
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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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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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Does work exist on relative valuations versus numeric valuations?
I've been trying to use Google Scholar to find something on this issue, but I fear I may not have found anything due to using incorrect terms. I am looking for any work which looks at rating systems ...
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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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Is there a test that measures gender dysphoria?
Gender dysphoria according to wikipedia is
[T]he distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. In these cases, the assigned sex and gender do not ...
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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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What's the effect of color on responses to a Likert scale?
We're implementing comment cards on our site that contain a simple Likert-type scale that uses colored buttons (red, orange, yellow, light green, green), to denote the range of negative to positive ...
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How to calculate IQ from bhatia battery test?
How to find out IQ from bhatia battery test? Suppose time for each of the 5 subtests is noted down. What are the steps to reach at an IQ value from here?
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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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Is there anything comparable to the IPIP for IO psychology, work psychology and the like?
The International Personality Item Pool is a public domain collection of over 3000 items and 250 scales.
Is there anything comparable for work psychology and the like?
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Canonical Literature for “Big 5” Personality Theory
I'm searching for a good reference on "Big 5" personality theory that explains the topic in detail beyond the level of a website. I am hoping to get a pointer to some of the "canonical" literature--i....
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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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What is the relationship between a strong work ethic and an honest reputation and individual success?
We're all being constantly told that strong work ethics, honestly reputation and all similar things is the key and the only key to success. But observation of success of certain politicians, marketing ...
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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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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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Computer-based cognitive tests
Maybe someone can point me out on the computer-based set of tests to assess the cognitive abilities of the adults? I am looking for something like ETS cognitive tests KIT that can be used online for ...
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How are psychological bio-markers discovered?
Recently, this paper [1] claiming to be able to distinguish bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder via a urine sample has come to my attention.
Despite reading the paper, I'm unable to ...
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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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What is the cause of differences that are too small to see?
Consider two identical pieces of paper.
Scenario 1: On both something is drawn in black ink. If the difference between the areas covered in black ink is sufficiently small, I cannot see the ...
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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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How to estimate IQ for public figures?
Background: I read a question on Quora that asked how intelligent is Barack Obama. A wide range of arguments were presented. The tone of the answers was not neutral because of the political context of ...
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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?
Are ...
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Freeware for measuring keystroke duration
I am searching for freeware to measure the duration of a keystroke or mouse-click, both would work. Does anyone have an idea?
Matlab toolboxes are, unfortunately, of no use to me.
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Why do male brains not detect extra “F”
Is there a neuroscience explanation for the behavior in the following experiment? Are there any papers or research conducted to find out why this differentiation happens?
Count the number of ...
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Accuracy of psychopy keystroke duration measurement
I am using Psychopy and this code for measuring keystroke duration as suggested in this answer for my previous question:
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Neurogensis in CNS invloves apoptosis of scar cells?
Say there's neurogensis in a brain area that seems to "allow" it, like the Hipocampus, Striatum, and so forth.
Does this neurogensis might be preceded in the apoptosis of scar cells, and then, in the ...
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Calculating brain-part volume percentage?
How is the approximate volume occupied by a brain component calculated?
For example, how would you know the approximate brain volume percentage of both hippocampi or both parts of the striatum, or ...
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How does on one create a circumplex model (multiple answers)?
Given a list of points with arousal and valence rankings, what is the best way of showing them on a circumplex model, given that they are already tagged with 1 out of 7 selected emotions, are they ...
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Accuracy and precision of wearable devices to measure galvanic skin response? [closed]
How accurate and precise are wearable devices to measure galvanic skin response compared to laboratory quality equipment? This discussion includes some details on the accuracy of wrist-based ...
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How do I measure ratio of EEG frequency band for a few electrodes in decibels?
I wanted to calculate the ratio of Theta/Beta ($\Theta$/$\beta$) in decibels for a couple of electrodes in AF3 AF4 and Cz
I was able to get these in microvolts, but would like to convert them to ...
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Name of false answer effect in surveys
I'm looking for research I've read about a well known effect that happens when participants complete a survey, where they do not answer what they think is right, but what they think the researchers ...
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How can experimental compliance (willingness of participants to participate) be measured?
I would like to have a measure for how willing and eager participants were during an experiment. I have the intuition that their eagerness to comply will profoundly alter results of psychological and ...
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How do I stream SMI glasses eye tracker data into MATLAB?
We are planning to use the SMI glasses eye tracker. This eye tracker obtains gaze data and we will use it for pupillometry as a measure of cognitive load.
The only thing I'd like to accomplish is ...
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What, if any, objective tests were designed for the assessment of altruism?
In an article by Santacreu et al. (2006) there is a mention of altruism assessment within the framework of the Character Education Inquiry (CEI):
If we return to the first half of the last century, ...
