Theory and measurement: Why representation is not enough

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<p>Measurement in psychology generally aims to assign numbers to objects, such that the numbers represent one or more psychological attributes. Representational measurement theory provides a framework to test whether such a representation (e.g., the mapping of subjective magnitudes, such as perceived brightness, to the real numbers) is possible in the first place. However, representational measurement does not ack...

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a3deef2b-243f-5552-b5b7-084b0ceaf8f0

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10.31234/osf.io/yk6vt_v1