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A Brief Comment on Thurstone's Note on a Reanalysis of Davis' Reading Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frederick B. Davis
Frederick B. Davis*
Affiliation:
Office of the Air Surgeon; Headquarters, Army Air Forces
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Abstract

A comparison of factorial analyses made by Thurstone and by the writer shows that they differ in three important respects. The results of the two analyses are compared with respect to their social utility, which is offered as a proper criterion for judging the merit of factorial analyses performed by different mathematical procedures.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1946 , pp. 249 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © 1946 The Psychometric Society

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