Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Beaufort’s Wind Scale makes me want to add Likert levels.
Rate your agreement with “…”:
⚪️ slightly agree
⚪️ moderately agree
⚪️ FRESH agree
⚪️ strongly agree
⚪️ GALE FORCE agree
⚪️ VIOLENTLY agree
🔘 HURRICANE Agree
Jan R. BoehnkeJust came across this blast from the past (2013):
https://rdcu.be/e7TDY
- daily assessments
- ordinal data multilevel #measurement
- DIF analysis
Couched as a preliminary investigation and pilot study, the analytic approach still sets a bar reached rarely by studies with such data.
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Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
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We offer a job as a Research Associate (Doctoral student) focus on psychometrics
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75 %, limited to 4 years):
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Scientific career at GESIS
RE: https://flipboard.com/@wsj/business-b1985f4jz/-/a-T6_YAnIFSTSuzZdNlac-EA%3Aa%3A248213600-%2F0
“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, #Auru uses thousands of #AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds #demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs, and the results those bots spit out are being used for product #development, #pricing, identifying new customers and political #polling.”
Researchers have warned about the inaccuracies of treating #LLMs as human proxies (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11297-5), but I wouldn’t be surprised #languageModels beat #qualitative interpretation of non-representative focus groups.
#marketing #psychometrics #statistics #quantMethods #philSci #metascience #business
A #SysReview exploring impacts of community-based interventions for adults with #multimorbidity on clinical and patient-reported outcomes (25 studies):
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/e004156
Quick comparison of identified outcomes with the two central #CoreOutcomeSets 👇
Having seen many (and done some) of these proof-of-concept studies myself, let's me wonder:
Are there still too few well-developed systems available?
Maybe someone reads this and feels we can get a collection of these together so that others can read up on them?
A recent post the @Mental_Elf picks up and explains a study on computerized adaptive testing, which is quite cool!
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/digital-health/measuring-paranoid-beliefs-can-adaptive-testing-support-routine-clinical-care/
Psychometricians, what is your favourite application or study in the field of computerized adaptive testing with health-related constructs?
Interesting paper about the impact of missed cases on the accuracy of screening tools, likely of interest beyond autism research and practice communities.
I enjoyed in particular, that "[t]he strengths and benefits of blending epidemiology and psychometric perspectives to identify screening tools that are weaker than expected are discussed."
Upcoming event at the Institute for #MedicalHumanities in Durham, UK:
#Measurement Heretics Workshop
Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well
https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/medical-humanities/events/measurement-heretics-workshop-being-meaning-and-measuring-well/
11.-13.03.2026
Day 1 #hybrid keynote:
A fluid history of measurement: The drop in the metric revolution
Armel Cornu and Sarah Hijmans
[Day2-3 in-person]
VorthalisMORPHIC CORE: Sustainable peak performance in entertainment depends on aligning individual Cognitive Load Tolerance with task complexity rather than simply pursuing brilliance.
In high-pressure industries like entertainment, "underperformance" is often just a cognitive mismatch. By aligning Cognitive Load Tolerance—the ability to process multiple streams of info—with specific roles, we increase R_lock (Resonance) and output without adding headcount.