What assumption did Lewis Terman and Catherine Cox Miles make in their assessment of masculinity and femininity, and how was that corrected in later measures?
What will be an ideal response?
Terman and Miles assumed that masculinity and femininity were endpoints on a single dimension, so it was not possible to score high on both. Later measures, such as the Personal Attributes Questionnaire, conceived of femininity and masculinity as two separate dimensions.
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