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ERIC Number: EJ156047
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Position Error in Rating
Wagner, Edwin E.; Daubney, John H.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 36, 4, 825-8, Win 76
Using words of known selection values arranged in a counterbalanced order, it was shown that subjects' ratings of the "imagery value" of each word resulted in error which favored the first position in the series when stimuli were homogeneous. The error did not occur with words which were markedly heterogeneous. (Author)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Rating Scales
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Identifiers: Position Error