This study assessed the extent to which perception of exertion (RPE), as measured by Borg's 1971 scale using bicycle ergometry, is a unique perceptual trait. Correlations run for 35 subjects between RPE and a battery of seven perceptually oriented tasks were not significant, implying that RPE may be a unique perceptual ability-
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