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Specifically, the framework clarifies why threshold ordering and threshold advancement by a useful amount matter for measurement and what is at stake when either requirement is violated. Within this framework, the paper proposes a probability-ratio criterion that links threshold distance to the relative probabilities of adjacent and nonadjacent response categories. The criterion provides researchers and practitioners with a simple, readily interpretable, and context-sensitive basis for determining the minimum threshold distance required to distinguish response categories with a desired probability contrast. The framework is illustrated theoretically and evaluated empirically using the rating scale model and the partial credit model, two parameterisations of the polytomous Rasch model, across a large set of instruments that employ common 4- and 5-point agreement and frequency scales. 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