Some of the methodologies that have become standard tools in psychometrics suffer from neglect. They are taken too much for granted and are not given the attention that seems appropriate to the important role they play in research advances. I propose to make some suggestions which may, in a modest way, assist in alleviating this difficulty. In a very general way I would like to suggest that effort expended in examining a variety of restatements of a methodological problem may lead to new methodologies of real value.