Gibbon, J. (1999). Multiple time scales is well named. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 272-275.

Staddon and Higa's article is a critique of scalar expectancy theory, and a proposed alternative, multiple time scales. The critique is generally flawed, both factually and logically. The alternative is bewildering in its flexibility, opaque in its quantitative description, and never addressed to real data.

Key words: timing, scalar expectancy theory