Researchers Constructed a Stimulus Scale by Asking Participants to Organize

Multiple Choice

Researchers constructed a stimulus scale by asking participants to organize 15 movies in terms of overall acting performance, with the top movie reflecting the best overall performances, and the bottom the worst overall performances. Which of the following statements would NOT be true about this scale? (circle all that apply)

A) participants' ratings of movie performances are transitive
B) the researchers constructed their scale by having participants select the better movie performances between 105 pairwise comparisons [i.e., 15(14) /2]
C) the top movie on the scale represents excellent acting performances
D) participant differences in movie performance ratings are thought be measurement error