PARTIALLY ORDERED SCALE

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N., Pam M.S.
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a scale of gauging which lands halfway between a nominal scale and an ordinal scale, such which the scaling units can, usually (but not always), be ordered or rated from tiniest to biggest.

PARTIALLY ORDERED SCALE: "Partially ordered scales are used most frequently to evaluate severity or extremes of behaviors."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. ORDERED METRIC SCALE
  2. ORDERED SCALE
  3. BISECTION
  4. BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE (BPRS)
  5. METHOD OF EQUAL-APPEARING INTERVALS
  6. PERSON-TO-PERSON RATING SCALE
  7. NUMERICAL SCALE
  8. SENSE-RATIOS METHOD
  9. COUVADE SYNDROME, COVARIANCE
  10. COOLIDGE ASSESSMENT BATTERY (CAB)
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "PARTIALLY ORDERED SCALE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/partially-ordered-scale/ (accessed May 10, 2021).
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