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The data of Experiment 1 show that the items of the MISC are ranked in order of appearance, with the exception of 5 (\u2018severe dizziness, warmth, headache, stomach awareness, and sweating\u2019) and 6 (\u2018slight nausea\u2019), which are ranked in opposite order. However, in Experiment 2, we find that discomfort associated with each level of the MISC, as it was used to express motion sickness during exposure to a sickening stimulus, increases monotonously; following a power law with an exponent of 1.206. While the results of Experiment 1 replicate the non-linearity found in recent studies, the results of Experiment 2 suggest that the non-linearity is due to the semantic nature of Experiment 1, and that there is a positive monotonous relation between MISC and discomfort in practice. 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