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Guttman scale Psychol. and Sociol.|ˈgʌtmən|
[f. the name of L. Guttman (b. 1916), American psychologist.]
A type of scale used to measure and assess mental attitudes and properties (see quot. 1970).
1950S. A. Stouffer et al. Measurement & Prediction IV. i. 5 The perfect Guttman scale is not likely to be found in practice, but satisfactory approximations to it are not so rare as some critics of the early papers describing it have implied. 1968J. Whiting in Lindzey & Aronson Handbk. Soc. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. xvii. 714 Guttman scales have been used effectively in a number of cross-cultural studies. 1969Computers & Humanities III. 144 [They] have used Guttman scale analysis to measure attitudes of congressmen and senators about roll call votes between 1830 and 1860. 1970G. A. & A. G. Theodorson Mod. Dict. Sociol. 181 Guttman scale, a cumulative scale designed..to determine whether the items can be arranged along a single continuum of increasing intensity. When a series of items (attitudes) forms a Guttman scale, acceptance of any item on the scale indicates acceptance of all the items below it. |