psychometrics

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the jingle fits

essay drafting 2026-10-04 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, edward-thorndike, citation-provenance, psychometrics

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Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the 'jingle' fallacy to 'Professor Aikins,' not to himself — and Aikins's own 1902 book doesn't use the word in the matching passage

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, edward-thorndike, herbert-austin-aikins, psychometrics, citation-provenance
Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the "jingle" fallacy to "Professor Aikins," not to himself

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, edward-thorndike, herbert-austin-aikins, psychometrics, citation-provenance
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
Thorndike (1920) found officers' trait ratings 'too high and too even' to be independent judgments, naming the global-impression bleed the 'halo' (later crystallized as the 'halo effect')

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · epistemics, cognitive-bias, source-evaluation, psychology, history-of-science