Guttman, Louis

Louis Guttman was a sociologist known for developing the Guttman Scale, a method to measure attitudes or opinions. This scale ranks items in a way that if someone agrees with a more challenging statement, they will likely agree with all easier ones before it. For instance, if a person supports more extreme views on a topic, they probably support less extreme ones too. Guttman's work helps researchers understand social attitudes more clearly and allows for better analysis of survey data by revealing underlying patterns in responses.