@article{WeskottFanselow2011,
  author    = {Weskott, Thomas and Fanselow, Gisbert},
  title     = {On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability},
  series = {Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America},
  volume    = {87},
  journal   = {Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {0097-8507},
  pages     = {249 -- 273},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n-point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about the acceptability of a given linguistic phenomenon. The three measures are largely equivalent with respect to informativity. Moreover, ME judgments are shown to be more liable to producing spurious variance under certain circumstances.*},
  language  = {en}
}