The object detection logic of latent variable technologies

Michael Maraun ()
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Michael Maraun: Simon Fraser University

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2017, vol. 51, issue 1, No 14, 239-259

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Latent variable models; Object detection; Latent structure detection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-015-0303-0

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