Psychometrics, Mathematical Psychology, and Cognition: Confessions of a Closet Psychometrician.

摘要

This article presents the confessions of a closet psychometrician. The introduction to the article contains my first public admission of the strange, secret life I have been leading. The remainder of the article is divided into three parts. The first two parts describe how my research on the componential analysis of human intelligence draws upon the disciplines of psychometrics, mathematical psychology, and cognition. In the first part, I describe the relevance of the psychometric constructs of validity and reliability to this research. In the second part, I describe the application of multivariate techniques of regression, factor analysis, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and additive clustering to the research. The third part of the article explains why I originally became a closet psychometrician, and why I have remained one. I attempt through this explanation to convey what I believe to be the major problem currently facing psychometrics as a discipline. (Author)