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Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept » (New Edition)

Authors: Joel Michell, Quentin Skinner (Editor), Lorraine Daston
ISBN-13: 9780521021517, ISBN-10: 0521021510
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: New Edition

Traces history of measurement in social sciences/sciences to question whether psychological attributes are quantitative.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Numerical data and the meaning of measurement	1
2	Quantitative psychology's intellectual inheritance	24
3	Quantity, number and measurement in science	46
4	Early psychology and the quantity objection	78
5	Making the representational theory of measurement	109
6	The status of psychophysical measurement	140
7	A definition made to measure	162
8	Quantitative psychology and the revolution in measurement theory	191
	Glossary	220
	List of references	224
	Index	243