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Note on the Scaling of Ratings or Rankings when the Numbers Per Subject are Unequal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Edward E. Cureton*
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee

Abstract

The average rating (or normalized rank) of a person rated by a larger number of judges will in general be closer to the group average than will the average rating of a person rated by a smaller number of judges, as a result of rating unreliability and regression. This note presents a technique for correcting that bias.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

Ebel, Robert L. Estimation of the reliability of ratings. Psychometrika, 1951, 16, 407–424.

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