The Techniques of Subjective Judgments
Talk by R. G. Hopkinson , Ph.D.
Last autumn nearly two hundred physicists, engineers, and psychologists met in conference to discuss techniques that make use of human subjects to assess such things as noise, lighting, touch, taste, and smell. Some of them expressed the view that the measurement of sensation was not possible and that the experimental methods were fallacious, others that these techniques served their purpose if they gave data of precise operational value. In this talk Dr. Hopkinson discusses the present situation.