Items and Persons

Formal Duals and Psychological Differences

Bibliographic Data

ID19290908
AuthorsDonald W Fiske (corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume3
Issue4
Pages393-401
Publication date1968-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMultivariate Behavioral Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-3171 • E-ISSN: 1532-7906
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327906mbr0304_2
PMID26824307
OpenAlexW2065425977
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

A matrix of the responses of persons (rows) to items (columns) can be analyzed for persons as the dual of the usual analyses for items. In personality tests, the stability of items varies with mean distance between the item and the points for persons, and the dual holds for persons. For items, the item- test correlation varies somewhat with stability and with the frequency of appropriate response processes (i.e., Ss answering the item as E intended them to), but stability and appropriateness are not correlated. For persons, the per- son-group correlation is independent of stability and appropriateness, these latter variables being correlated. Thus the pattern of relationships among item indices is different from that for the dual indices for people. Persons being complex, they approach personality test items in diverse ways about which little is known today

Combinatorics · Correlation · Dual (grammatical number) · Dual polyhedron · Linguistics · Machine learning · Personality · Row · Stability (learning theory) · Statistics · Test (biology) · Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing · Social Psychology

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