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Measurement in the Social Sciences: The Link between Theory and Data

Richard A. Zeller and Edward G. Carmines

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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I wish I liked this more, because it's heart is in the right place. In particular, trying to see what remains of psychometric's classical test theory after admitting that systematic error is possible is a worthwhile undertaking!

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.