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The principle of invariance is now a familiar one in psychology, especially because of its prominent role in the theory of measurement. The relation of invariance to the meaningfulness of various statistics for various scales of measurement is a particularly salient example that has received much discussion in the literature for over thirty years. Perhaps the most notorious case is that of whether standard intelligence tests have more than ordinal properties.
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Suppes, P. (1993). The Principle of Invariance with Special Reference to Perception. In: Models and Methods in the Philosophy of Science: Selected Essays. Synthese Library, vol 226. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2300-8_30
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