On the Use of Unreplicated Pairing in Forestry Planning

Abstract

The assessment of judgemental information belongs traditionally to a branch of psychology which is known as psychometrics or psychophysics. One of the most well-known psychometric “laws” is Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgement which is based on the assumption that relative preferences among different criteria (“stimuli”) can be established if the criteria are lined up in pairs. Thurstone was a statistician and his approach requires replicated pairing.