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Publication
Psychometrika
Paper
Testable conditions for triads of paired comparison choices
Abstract
Forty-two choice models, each representing stimuli by one-dimensional probability distributions, are obtained by relaxing the assumptions of Thurstone's Case V Law of Comparative Judgment. The models which imply or fail to imply each of nine testable probabilistic conditions are determined. Stochastic transitivity is vulnerable in most of these models. The results suggest discarding weak stochastic transitivity, and in its place using the conjunction of weak stochastic transitivity and the triangular condition. However, unless it is possible to predict which stimuli will produce violations of the conditions, none of the conditions can be rejected on the basis of too frequent intransitive triads of choices. © 1963 Psychometric Society.