Psychometric chart

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Hi All ?

Even as a native English speaker, it took me several trips to Google to remember that the correct word is ?psychrometric? rather than ?psychometric? (and lord knows that autocorrect is not helping, even as I type this email). If it?s helpful for others who are explaining the difference, I did some wikipedia-ing: it?s ?psychro" because of the Greek word for cold - psuchron. So psychrometric literally means something like "measurement of cold?. I guess psychometric would be ?measurement of the mind? - I lecture occasionally, and I like the idea of showing the difference with humor. Does anyone have any other candidates for what a ?psychometric chart? might be?

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Funny story - several people on this list go to ASHRAE HQ and we are going to develop an energy modeling certification that we now know as BEMP.

We show up with the test development consultant who is a psychometrician - the profession of making tests for people.

There was a lot of excitement and mutual confusion until it was clarified that we the committee have an ?r? in our lingo which makes it completely a different field.

So at least in a few cases for ASHRAE Certification exams there is an overlap between psychometrics and psychrometrics!

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I like this psychometric chart. It shows the rankings of all the songs on the classic Talking Heads: 77 album, with the song Psycho Killer being ranked highest by users of besteveralbums.com.

[https://www.besteveralbums.com/graph_albumtrackratings.php?o=album&oid=1277]

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Thanks for the vocabulary enhancement!
p.s., Bill, in classic form, was not being serious, just simplifying and
adding lightness to our modeling airplane. (with apologies to the Wright
Brothers for mangling their quotation)

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