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Overview of Psychometrics

Steve Hsu gave a brief introduction to the science of psychometrics at Foo and SciFoo this year. He was kind enough to share his slides. This is a pretty good overview of the important bits. He also has some discussion of his slides here.

Thanks for sharing Steve!

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