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The object detection logic of latent variable technologies

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Endemic to theoretical and applied psychometrics is a failure to appreciate that the logic at root of each and every latent variable technology is object detection logic. The predictable consequence of a discipline’s losing sight of an organizing logic, is that superficiality, confusion, and mischaracterization are visited upon discussion. In this paper, I elucidate the detection logic that is the foundational, and unifying, logic, of latent variable technology, and discuss and dissolve a number of the more egregious forms of confusion and mischaracterization that, consequent upon its having been disregarded, have come to infect psychometrics.

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  • Michael Maraun, 2017. "The object detection logic of latent variable technologies," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 239-259, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:qualqt:v:51:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s11135-015-0303-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s11135-015-0303-0
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