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Two sets of fifteen recalls of two stories were selected so that they exhibited small amounts of variability in length. These two sets of recalls were scaled for accuracy of recall by the method of rank order. Factor analytic treatment of the intercorrelations of seven accuracy of recall measures resulted in a two factor solution for both sets of recalls. Regression analysis indicated, as might be predicted, that the scaled scores were more influenced by nonlength than by length factors although even under these length restrictive conditions length of recalls still influenced judgments of accuracy of recall.
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A portion of this report was used as the basis of a thesis submitted by the second author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The American University, June, 1961.
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King, D.J., Yu, K.C. The effect of reducing the variability of length of written recalls on the rank order scale values of the recalls. Psychol Rec 12, 39–44 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393438
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393438