The Degree of Extensional Agreement among Twenty Psychologists in Their Use of the Labels Hypothesis, Theory and Law

Authors

Wendell Johnson, University of IowaFollow
John T. Wilson, University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

This study represents an attempt to measure the degree of extensional agreement among a group of psychologists in their usage of certain labels, which were familiar to and commonly employed by all members of the group. Specifically, the problem was to measure the degree of agreement among the twenty psychologists as to the applicability of the three labels, hypothesis, theory and law to a group of twenty statements, each of which had been labelled in one of the three ways by the original author of the statement.

Publication Date

1945

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

52

Issue

1

First Page

255

Last Page

259

Copyright

©1945 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Wendell and Wilson, John T. (1945) "The Degree of Extensional Agreement among Twenty Psychologists in Their Use of the Labels Hypothesis, Theory and Law," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 52(1), 255-259.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol52/iss1/34