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Message posted by rob on June 23, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
is there a test method for how to test and rank subjective data. Example i have 40 sounds and want to sujective rank them best to worst. what would be a good test method to do that.
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Re: ranking
Message posted by prrosenkrant@csupomona.edu on June 24, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
If you have two people rank the data independently, then you can compute Spearman's Rank Coefficient. It is a lot like "r", but a non-parametric version. The higher the coefficient, the more agreement between raters. Maybe that will help.
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