 The Statistical Analysis of Aesthetic Judgment: An ExplorationM. Davenport and G. Studdert‐Kennedy Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 1972, vol. 21, issue 3, 324-333 Abstract: A seventeenth‐century critic, Roger de Piles, has expressed in quantitative terms a series of aesthetic judgements on 56 painters, using four standard but complex conceptual categories. An attempt is made to explore the structure of his judgments and the effective content of his categories through principal component and cluster analysis. Inferences are made from the component analysis about the discriminatory power of his categories and their relative importance in registering his evaluations. Both hierarchical and re‐allocative clusterings produce groups that are to some extent at odds with conventional expectations. These are felt to raise questions of interest to students of de Piles's discursive writings and of the aesthetics of the period. Attempts to extend the application of such techniques to fresh substantive problems must come to terms appropriately with the constraints and assumptions entailed in the statistical procedures, but the exploration suggests that there could be productive applications in the comparative analysis of subjective judgments. Date: 1972 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jorssc:v:21:y:1972:i:3:p:324-333 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C is currently edited by R. Chandler and P. W. F. Smith More articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C from Royal Statistical Society Contact information at EDIRC. |
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