Pith Number

pith:KPYTVCUN

pith:2025:KPYTVCUNHBLMNUJYDZJ5XEIQJG

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Don't Let Your Likert Scales Grow Up To Be Visual Analog Scales: Understanding the Relationship Between Number of Response Categories and Measurement Error

Karen M. Schmidt, Siqi Sun, Teague R. Henry

arxiv:2502.02846 v1 · 2025-02-05 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KPYTVCUNHBLMNUJYDZJ5XEIQJG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:09:55.964254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53f13a8a8d3856c6d1381e53db911049a060eac1598638afb8f751bca27fde9b

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.02846 · arxiv_version: 2502.02846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.02846 · pith_short_12: KPYTVCUNHBLM · pith_short_16: KPYTVCUNHBLMNUJY · pith_short_8: KPYTVCUN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KPYTVCUNHBLMNUJYDZJ5XEIQJG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 53f13a8a8d3856c6d1381e53db911049a060eac1598638afb8f751bca27fde9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccf1807846ef077b07d0c64e6c46aaf4196bd467d202dbee90ec3497fe924f16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-05T03:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efddd06ac9c3a253469427b150822212f913fd02520e1deb99629154c33ce16b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.02846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}