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A person’s scalability for a trait is a measure of the consistency of that person’s behavior over situations. For any trait, sufficient data for measuring scalability include (1) observations of behavior-in-situation, and, (2) a prior metric for assigning elevation scores to the observed behaviors. The generalizability of scalability scores will be enhanced to the degree that the range of situations is representative of the domain of interest. A paper-and-pencil set of “situations” may be considered as a sample from that domain, albeit one which, because of its homogeneity, is lacking in both statistical power and conceptual generality.
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Lanning, K. (1991). A Single Trait Measure of Scalability. In: Consistency, Scalability, and Personality Measurement. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3072-4_4
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