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Differences in Factor Content of Rights and Wrongs Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Benjamin Fruchter
Benjamin Fruchter*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas
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Abstract

The right-response scores and wrong-response scores of speeded aptitude tests were factor analyzed to determine whether they differ in factorial content. The information thus obtained was used to derive scoring formulas that yield purer measures of a factor than do scoring formulas derived in other ways.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 1953 , pp. 257 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This paper is a revision of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Southern California, 1948, and a paper read to the American Psychological Association in September, 1949. The writer is greatly indebted to Dr. J. P. Guilford for providing the intercorrelation and distribution data from the files of the School of Aviation Medicine and for general guidance throughout the study. He also wishes to express his appreciation to T/Sgt. Frank C. Ivens and Sgt. James R. MacDonald for computational assistance in the extraction and rotation of the centroid factors, which were performed while the writer was a civilian employee of the Air Training Command, Human Resources Research Center. The opinions expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the USAF.

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