This is a type of scoring produced by testing a large population and generating a normal bell curve distribution of the results The distribution is then divided into standard tenths (or ninths in older instruments), creating a quantified, normal scale with which to measure and compare individuals
That which is not perceived or experienced by members of a society as odd, peculiar, outlandish, or even as deserving of unusual attention, because either: (a) it is culturally typical, conventional, and encountered commonly in the societal mainstream; and /or (b) due to typical cultural experiences, the phenomenon is well within the range of the "expectable" or consistent with an aspired norm, even if the norm is rarely actualized or attained (Wolfensberger & Thomas, 1983)
* When something, such as a standard or a judgment or evaluation, is normative, it concerns respects in which something is good or bad Therefore, value judgments are normative, but the judgment that X is greener, or heavier, than Y is not A standard of excellence is normative, in this sense, but a standard of measurement or a statistical norm is not
Normative means creating or stating particular rules of behaviour. Normative sexual behaviour in our society remains heterosexual. a normative model of teaching. describing or establishing a set of rules or standards of behaviour
Claims and conclusions that are based on values which are themselves derived from the typical events in a context For example, If someone says, "You shouldn't use foul language in public places," they are making a normative claim or assertion based upon what's typical and not typical of the "public" context and that they value the norm, or the typical over the unusual or a-typical In science and for most rationalists, there is no necessary (lawful) connection between what is (as a fact) and what should be (as a value) For most of us, the effort of reason is to change normative claims into rational or testable claims For example, "if you use foul language in public places, you are likely (9 times out of 10) to meet with disapproval and censure