โ Scribed by Maria Nowakowska
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This paper presents the results of investigations aimed at determining whether certain evaluations of items have any value in predicting the variability of answers to these items.
The method of analysis was based on the concept of minimax discrimination function. This method may have wider applicability to situations where the correlation methods fail.
The following results were obtained: the stability of an item is related to negative emotional reaction to the content of the item and to negative previous experience, while the variability is connected with negative intellectual evaluation of both the question and its answer. c+3 1. PROBLEM s SHOWN by empirical investigations * See Nowakowska (1970b).
'The theorem and the proof are due to Dr. Andrzej Ehrenfeucht (see footnote 1).
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