There are separate entries (see “try also”) for idiographicm, sometimes spelled “ideographic”, and nomothetic measures, this is about some background that I discovered years after using the terms purely as descriptors of measures.
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The history is well described in this wikipedia page but boils down to something that is only tangentially connected with measures but interesting: an epistemological and methodological distinction rather than one just about tools and measures. I that use of the terms nomothetic is about the search for general rules and regularities and idiographic the search for the personal and individual. There is a clear link to the use of the terms for measures but looking at the more general use of the terms helps alert us to the way that psychological research has become dominated by the search for general rules, in these terms, the nomothetic.
Try also #
Idiographic measures
Nomothetic measures
Chapters #
Chapters 2, 3 and 10.
Online resources #
Wikipedia page “Nomothetic and idiographic”
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First created 13.i.24.
