Three measures of consumers’ beliefs about different attributes of competitive brands of packaged goods—free choice, scaling, and ranking—are found to place the brands in the same relative positions on each attribute dimension. In addition, gradients by the recency or frequency of claimed brand usage that have been observed previously in free-choice belief data now are found also in the scaling and ranking data.
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