The present study investigated the extent to which intransitivity, as measured by the total circular triad (TCT) score in the method of paired comparisons, varies across different domains of content and across different groups of subjects. Three paired comparisons instruments were administered to 276 high school students and to 358 college students. Results indicated statistically significant (p ≤ .001) correlations among the three TCT indices for both groups of subjects.
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