Are some parts larger than others? Qualifying Hammerton's quantifiers

✍ Scribed by Alison R. Goodwin; Susan Thomas; James Hartley

• Book ID: 102988118
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 529 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6870
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-6870(77)90059-x

✦ Synopsis

An investigation is reported in which people were asked to give verbal equivalents of percentages, and percentage equivalents of verbal statements. The results suggested that such statements and percentages could be ranked reasonably consistently, but that the ranking differed from that proposed by Hammerton in an earlier article in this journal.