Ratings of the ninety occupations selected by the National Opinion Research Center were made by a group of judges on the responsibility, training, education, and skill required in each occupation, and showed a multiple correlation of .962 with NORC prestige scores. The personal autonomy of the job holder added no significant explanation of variance in prestige. This finding supports the views of recent theorists and is consistent with the Davis-Moore theory of stratification. An index of occupational prestige derived from judges' ratings of these variables would mark an advance over current indexes of occupational standing.
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Ida Harper Simpson (1960) studied this question.