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A general theory of ratio scalability with remarks about the measurement-theoretic concept of meaningfulness

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    Louis Narens

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The research for this paper was supported by an NSF Grant (IST-7924019) to the University of California, Irvine. The author would like to express his thanks to R. Duncan Luce, who through conversations over the last few years helped crystalize many of the ideas presented in this paper.

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Narens, L. A general theory of ratio scalability with remarks about the measurement-theoretic concept of meaningfulness. Theor Decis 13, 1–70 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02342603

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