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The subjective similarity among ten occupational categories is analyzed by the asymmetric multidimensional scaling based on singular value decomposition. The similarity among occupational categories is obtained by a procedure where the similarity from occupational categories j to k is judged by respondents engaged in occupational category j, and the similarity from occupational categories k to j is judged by respondents engaged in occupational category k. These two similarities are not necessarily equal. This makes it possible to analyze asymmetric relationships of the subjective similarity. The three-dimensional solution disclosed two kinds of asymmetry between two occupational categories which are caused by the difference of the status between two occupational categories.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)) Grant Number 24530625. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the reviewer who gave us constructive comments. They hope to thank for helpful suggestions given to the earlier version by Hiroshi Inoue. They also wish to their appreciation to Reginald Williams concerning English.
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Okada, A., Hayashi, T. (2017). Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Subjective Similarities Among Occupational Categories. In: van der Ark, L.A., Wiberg, M., Culpepper, S.A., Douglas, J.A., Wang, WC. (eds) Quantitative Psychology. IMPS 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56294-0_12
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