Scaling and the Measurement of Sensation
Jean‐Claude Falmagne · 2002
Abstract This chapter covers a collection of models, procedures, and empirical analyses purporting to provide a representation of some data in terms of one or more numerical scales. Such is also the aim of measurement theory, a field in which (as we have seen in Chapters 1 and 2) axioms systems are given justifying specific methods of scale construction. In the work usually classified under “scaling,” however, acquiring the scales is typically considered as an end in itself, and the theoretical underpinnings are of secondary importance.1