ON THE PROBLEM OF SCALES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MAGNITUDES

Abstract

[This paper has no abstract. Stevens presented it at the Fifth International Congress for the Unity of Science, which convened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on September 3-9, 1939. Stevens’s paper, together with several other papers presented at the Fifth International Congress, was scheduled for publication in The Journal of Unified Science (Erkenntnis), volume 9. But that journal ended with volume 8, dated 1939/1940. The anticipated volume 9 was never published (see Marks, these Proceedings). Consequently, Stevens’s paper is presented here – edited and reformatted for this volume – for the first time since he delivered it at the 1939 International Congress. The paper is printed by permission of Peter Stevens. – Lawrence E. Marks]