Reported is a study of the relationship between a global measure of adaption-innovation (Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Inventory) and a domain-specific measure of consumers' innovativeness (Goldsmith and Hofacker's Domain Specific Innovativeness Scale). For a convenience sample of 26 adult consumers there was, as expected, no significant correlation between scores on the two scales.
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