A new type of scale, called the bipolar ordinal scale, is defined with assumptions slightly stronger than those of the normal ordinal scale. A similarity index, called r BP, is defined between persons with scores on this scale. It is invariant over item reflection. It is also an E-correlation coefficient and can thus be used in a Q-analysis.
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