Attitudes and ratings of 8 word-pairs from Similarities given by 14 men and 19 women were analyzed. Mean number of attributes and an abstraction score did not vary across word-pairs. Various measures of overlap reflected difficulty of stimuli. Only word-pairs for which controlling number of attributes improved the correlation of abstraction and Similarities were those for which the correlation of abstractions and number of attributes was significant.
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