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ipsative measurement: a standalone construct

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Psychometrics

scoring in which a person's scores sum to a constant across scales, as in forced-choice ranking, so scores describe within-person relative standing only.

In psychometrics, ipsative measurement refers to scoring in which a person's scores sum to a constant across scales, as in forced-choice ranking, so scores describe within-person relative standing only. This meaning comes from Hicks (1970) in Psychological Bulletin.[1]

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References

Hicks, L. E. (1970). Some properties of ipsative, normative, and forced-choice normative measures. Psychological Bulletin, 74(3), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029780

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