Nihm Refuted

I have read with interest the article by Sue Doe Nihm (November 1976)entitled "Polynomial Law of Sensation." Since I did not follow her arguments very well, I gave the article to a professor of mathematics, who commented as follows: "It surely is possible to fit almost any data with a polynomial. The polynomial fit, however, obscures the basic relation between the variables. It is of course the basic relations we seek." Nihm needs to be educated in science and mathematics. Her claims are either vacuous or preposterous.