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Factorial Analysis of Thurstone's Seven Primary Abilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Charles H. Goodman
Charles H. Goodman*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State College
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Abstract

Intercorrelation coefficients among Thurstone's seven primary mental abilities scores were obtained from scores of 170 freshmen engineering students on the experimental edition of the Primary Mental Abilities Tests. These correlation coefficients were factored to four factors, interpreted as a general factor, a reasoning factor, a verbal factor, and, tentatively, a specific memory factor. The finding of a general factor for a college population corroborates the Thurstones' finding of a general factor for eighth-grade children.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1943 , pp. 121 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © 1943 The Psychometric Society

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