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From	"Verkuilen, Jay" <JVerkuilen@gc.cuny.edu>
To	"'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Subject	RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
Date	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:18:10 -0500

David Kantor wrote:

>Yes, the phenomenon is called Fechner's Law or the Fechner-Weber Law.

Indeed it is, and it's been a perplexing thing for nearly two centuries now. (He says, having been very interested in such things in the past, and maybe in the future, but not right now.) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fechner%27s_law

Jay

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- Re: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
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- RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
  - From: "Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu>
- RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
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- RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
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- RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically
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