Patent ID: 7330823

Claim:
A method of sociometric analysis of a group of schoolchildren, comprising: surveying the schoolchildren to obtain peer nominations to social preference questions; analyzing the peer nominations to generate standardized Liked Most (zLM) and Liked Least (zLL) metrics for each schoolchild; generating standardized Social Preference (zSP) and Social Impact (zSI) scores from the zLM and zLL metrics; classifying each schoolchild into one of a plurality of mutually exclusive sociometric social classifications based on the zSP, zSI, zLM, and zLL values; and generating a probability score for each schoolchild indicative of the probability of the schoolchild being classified in each sociometric social classification upon re-assessment, wherein the probability of each schoolchild's Social Preference score upon re-assessment would fall within the numeric ranges of greater than +1, less than −1, between −1 and +1, and between −0.5 and +0.5, are respectively: PzSPPos1= P (zSP)>1=cdf(zSP−1); PzSPNeg1= P (zSP)<−1=cdf(−1−zSP); PzSPNominal= P (−1<zSP<1)=1−PzSPPos1*1−PzSPNeg1; and PzSPAverage= P (−0.5<zSP<0.5)=(1−cdf(zSP−0.5))*cdf(0.5+zSP); where cdf(*) denotes a cumulative density function.