Sociometric Research: Volume 1 Data Collection and Scaling

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Noises from the Spiral of Silence: Measurement Errors in Variables, Related to the Assessment of Other People’s Opinions....Pages 3-23
Types of Inadequate Interviewer Behaviour in Survey-Interviews....Pages 24-35
Surveying Ethnic Minorities....Pages 36-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
A Coding Procedure for Empirical Research of Political Decision-making....Pages 51-68
Ideology in International Propaganda: A Clustering Approach for Content Analysis Data....Pages 69-89
On Agreement Indices for Nominal Data....Pages 90-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Use of Models for Paired Comparisons with Ties....Pages 109-122
Unidimensional Unfolding Complemented by Feigin and Cohen’s Error Model....Pages 123-136
Stochastic Unfolding....Pages 137-158
Reliability Estimation in Mokken’s Nonparametric Item Response Model....Pages 159-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Some Empirical Tests of the Predictive Strength of Three Multi-attribute Preference Models....Pages 177-199
Individual Response Functions and Correlations between Judgements....Pages 200-214
Why Biased Answers on Evaluations of Own Job Qualities in Survey-interviews Arise....Pages 215-229
The Measurement of Income Satisfaction....Pages 230-246