Theta Reliability and Factor Scaling

Armor, David J.

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“…The reliability of the mean of the nine judges' ratings for this new variable was .85. This reliability, an Armor's theta of .97 (an index of the internal consistency of this composite; Armor, 1974;Rosenthal, 1987), and a mean intercorrelation among the 15 variables of r = .67, supported the decision to use the sum of ratings of the 15 dimensions as an additional global variable. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) of this composite variable revealed no significant main effect for the order of the 3 clips for each teacher.…”

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Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness.

Ambady

Rosenthal²

1993

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

846

527

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The accuracy of strangers' consensual judgments of personality based on "thin slices" of targets' nonverbal behavior were examined in relation to an ecologically valid criterion variable. In the 1st study, consensual judgments of college teachers' molar nonverbal behavior based on very brief (under 30 s) silent video clips significantly predicted global end-of-semester student evaluations of teachers. In the 2nd study, similar judgments predicted a principal's ratings of high school teachers. In the 3rd study, ratings of even thinner slices (6-s and 15-s clips) were strongly related to the criterion variables. Ratings of specific micrononverbal behaviors and ratings of teachers' physical attractiveness were not as strongly related to the criterion variable. These findings have important implications for the areas of personality judgment, impression formation, and nonverbal behavior.

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Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness.

Ambady

Rosenthal²

1993

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

846

527

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“…The standard of living scale had good internal consistency (u = 0.86). 27 Items contributing most strongly included possession of a refrigerator, bath, television, electricity, running water, closet, and gas or electric cooking fuel, number of bedrooms/ rooms, household food expenditure, type of toilet, and weekly household income. This questionnaire was also administered at the adult follow-up.…”

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Socioeconomic Outcomes in Adults Malnourished in the First Year of Life: A 40-Year Study

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Infant malnutrition is known to be associated with behavioral and cognitive impairment throughout childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. However, controlled studies addressing adult outcomes in middle life, including earning potential, educational attainment, and standard of living, are limited. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:A discrete episode of moderate to severe malnutrition in infancy, with good rehabilitation thereafter, is associated with lower adult social status and a widening income gap relative to healthy controls, partially attributable to cognitive impairment in the previously malnourished. abstract OBJECTIVE: Lifelong functional, adaptive, and economic outcomes of moderate to severe infantile malnutrition are not well known. We assessed social status and income at midlife in a cohort of Barbadian adults, hospitalized for protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) during the first year of life, with good nutrition and health thereafter, in the context of a 40-year longitudinal case-control study. We also examined to what extent childhood IQ mediated any group differences.METHODS: Educational achievement, occupational status, and standard of living were assessed by the Hollingshead scales and a sitespecific Ecology Questionnaire in Barbadian adults (aged 37-43 years) with a history of malnutrition (n = 80) and a matched healthy control group (n = 63), classmates of the index cases. Malnutrition effects, adjusted for childhood standard of living, were estimated by longitudinal multiple regression analyses, with and without childhood IQ, in the models.RESULTS: PEM predicted poorer socioeconomic outcomes with medium to large effect sizes (0.50-0.94), but childhood IQ substantially attenuated the magnitude of these effects (adjusted effect sizes: 0.17-0.34). The gap in weekly household income between the PEM and control groups increased substantially over the life span (P , .001).CONCLUSIONS: Moderate to severe PEM during the first year of life with adequate nutrition and health care thereafter is associated with significant depression of socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood, mediated in part by cognitive compromise in affected individuals. This finding underscores the potential long-term economic burden of infant malnutrition, which is of major concern given the continued high prevalence of malnutrition worldwide. Pediatrics 2012;130:e1-e7 AUTHORS:

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“…Mel ver and Carmines, 1981). Unidimensionality was assessed through factor analysis and computation of the theta coefficient (Armor, 1974;Carmines and Zeller, 1979;Zeller and Carmines, 1980). The unidimensionality of all 10 scales was adequate.…”

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Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm

Szulanski¹

1996

Strategic Management Journal

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Theta Reliability and Factor Scaling

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Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness.

Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness.

Socioeconomic Outcomes in Adults Malnourished in the First Year of Life: A 40-Year Study

Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm

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