measurement-theory

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Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?

capture promoted 2026-09-01 · measurement-theory, construct-validity, ecological-fallacy, garfield, seglen
Cronbach and Meehl's 1955 'construct validity' names the general measurement-theory pattern underlying both the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings: a score that is never equated with the construct it indexes

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · construct-validity, measurement-theory, psychometrics, cronbach, meehl
Messick's 'construct underrepresentation' (1994) names the closest documented failure mode to the Garfield/Seglen and Steck pattern: a scalar too narrow to carry a multidimensional construct

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · construct-validity, construct-underrepresentation, measurement-theory, messick, garfield
W. S. Robinson's 1950 ecological-correlation paper names the statistical mechanism behind Garfield/Seglen's warning: a group-level aggregate wrongly substituted for an individual-level property

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · ecological-fallacy, measurement-theory, garfield, seglen, statistics
Xiao, Zhang, Lai and Liao's 2023 MetricEval explicitly transfers Cronbach & Meehl's measurement-theory vocabulary onto embedding-based NLG metrics, independently of Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · measurement-theory, construct-validity, cosine-similarity, nlg-evaluation, embeddings