Researchers have used either average correlation or the percentage of objects correctly predicted in assessing the accuracy of attitude models. Because the two measures are not directly comparable, the ability to contrast results from different studies is obviated. A method is presented for computing the average Spearman correlation coefficient directly from confusion matrices.
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