An introduction to the theory of mental and social measurements / by Edward L. Thorndike .
"It is the aim of this book to introduce students to the theory of mental measurements and to provide them with such knowledge and practice as may assist them to follow critically quantitative evidence and argument and to make their own researches exact and logical. Only the most general princi...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teacher's College, Columbia University,
1913.
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| Edition: | Second edition --revised and enlarged. |
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "It is the aim of this book to introduce students to the theory of mental measurements and to provide them with such knowledge and practice as may assist them to follow critically quantitative evidence and argument and to make their own researches exact and logical. Only the most general principles are outlined, the special methods appropriate to each of the mental sciences being better left for separate treatment. If the general problems of mental measurement are realized and the methods at hand for dealing with variable quantities are mastered, the student will find no difficulty in acquiring the special information and technique involved in the quantitative aspect of his special science. This book has been revised, and the greater part of it entirely rewritten, to introduce the students to the literature on mental and social measurements which is now available. In general, the treatment is made much clearer and somewhat more elementary"--Pref. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Bibliogr.: pages 214-215. Includes bibliographical references. |