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What's Your Temperature? Thermometer Ratings and Political Analysis Berinsky, Adam Winter, Nicholas Uploaded 09-09-1999 Keywords thermometer rating measurement NES group evaluations interpersonal comparability Abstract This paper considers the measurement properties of the NES’ feeling thermometer ratings of political groups and individuals. We explore the degree to which the thermometer contains interval-level information, the degree to which t-scores are interpersonally comparable, and discuss the measure’s use in political analysis. nwinter@umich.edu