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The Application of Multiple Factorial Methods to the Study of Motor Abilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Claude Buxton
Claude Buxton*
Affiliation:
The University of Iowa
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Abstract

A battery of thirteen tests of motor abilities are analyzed by means of the Thurstone factor methods. Interpretations of the nature of the six factors extracted are offered, with reservations. The high degree of specificity of motor abilities results in very narrow group factors.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1938 , pp. 85 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The writer is indebted to Professors C. H. McCloy and C. E. Seashore of the University of Iowa, R. H. Seashore of Northwestern University, and L. L. Thurstone of the University of Chicago for suggestions concerning the research and manuscript.

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