Comparing the validity of numerical judgements elicited by direct rating and point allocation: Insights from objectively verifiable perceptual tasks

► Direct rating and point allocation are two ways of measuring relative importance. ► But which way best translates people's inner judgments into outer numerical values? ► Instead of subjective tasks, we use an objectively verifiable perceptual task. ► Individual-level judgments are more inter-rater reliable and accurate with DR than PA. ► But when combined into group-level judgements, DR and PA were equally accurate.