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It is not the case that The magnitude estimation task probably provides only interval-level data, the same as other judgment tasks
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Recent formalizations of magnitude estimation in the psychophysics literature specify that magnitude estimation requires ratio judgments
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Experimental evidence shows participants cannot make genuine ratio judgments of acceptability (e.g., judging one sentence as precisely half as acceptable as another)
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If participants cannot make ratio judgments, the magnitude estimation task cannot provide ratio-level data
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