#interpersonalcomparison — Public Fediverse posts

Improving Numerical Measures of Human Feelings: The Case of Pain https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpaper:421926304&r=&r=exp
"… proposed and validated a new method to measure the experienced intensity of acute pain across individuals. This method proved to be overwhelmingly more accurate and sensitive than standard, established methods for experimentally-induced acute pain which are used in medical, clinical and research applications
… In the case of experienced pain intensity, the mechanism that enables the new #measurement method to excel might indeed be rooted in its well-calibrated scale: #money.
… Money-free standard methods ask people for numerical estimations of their experiences without a benchmark for the numerical scale, which might lead them to choose salient numbers or intermediate values.
… Monetary amounts provide interpersonally comparable references and thereby reduce the intrinsic subjectivity in pain measurements.
… The use of monetary incentives is unproblematic for those applications, as it is already common practice to reward participation in them"
#ExperimentalEcon #calibration #validity #interpersonalComparison