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Gift, were judged to be between "strong" and "very strong"
on the judgement scale. All of the other criteria were
judged to be "weak" or "very weak". Familiarity was valued
least as an argument for ownership, and Knowledge almost as
low. What is notable about this is that the three criteria
most valued as arguments for ownership all describe modes of
acquisition. . And two of those, Crafting and Gift, were
ranked very low by the judgements of criteria based on the
recall tasks. As hypothesized, implicit and explicit
judgements appeared to be quite discrepant. As shown in
Table 10, there was not a significant correlation for even
one subject between rankings by explicit judgements and
rankings by either judgements of owned exemplars or
difference scores. The only pattern of significant
relationships was between judgements of owned exemplars and
of difference scores.
Clusters of Criteria
Cluster analysis was used because the study was an
initial exploratory attempt at identifying some of the
criteria entailed by ownership. The initial compiling,
labelling and expressing of 40 plausible criteria, and the
selection of a reasonable sub-set of 12 of those was all
done rather uncritically, without prior expectations. In
such situations, cluster analysis (or factor analysis) is
useful in identifying criteria which are responded to