Abstract
Cognitive mapping involves the description of the way individuals store and process geographic information. Typically, cognitive mapping data art: derived from individual responses and then analyzed in one of three ways: (1) the individual data sets are analyzed separately and only pooled for comparison (disaggregation); (2) the individual data sets are averaged and then analyzed (collective aggregation); or (3) the individual dam sets are analyzed and the results averaged (individual aggregation). This paper compares the latter two aggregation strategies for analyzing cognitive mapping data using data collected in a large-scale study of students' configurational knowledge of the city of Swansea in the United Kingdom. It is contended that the aggregation strategy adopted will have a fundamental effect upon the conclusions drawn from a study.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 269-280 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Professional Geographer |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 1997 |