On the Interpretation of Common Factors: A Criticism and a Statement

H. A. Reyburn; J. G. Taylor

doi:10.1007/bf02288683

journal article Mar 01, 1943

On the Interpretation of Common Factors: A Criticism and a Statement

H. A. Reyburn J. G. Taylor

Psychometrika Vol. 8 No. 1 pp. 53-64 · Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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Abstract

The concept of simple structure is criticized for lack of objectivity and for failure to produce invariance of (a) factor loadings under change of battery, and (b) individual scores on primary traits under change of tests. It is also criticized on the grounds that simple structure yields at best the factors which were put in and that, by suitable manipulation of tests, any set of factors may be represented in a battery by tests which will yield a simple structure. A procedure for rotation is developed which locates the first rotated axis to pass through a cluster of tests which, by hypothesis, contain a common factor and to project all tests into a hyperplane orthogonal to this factor. The second factor is then located to pass through the projections of a second cluster of tests defining the second factor, and so on, until all hypothecated factors have been located. Any residual interrelations may then be rotated graphically to the most plausible arrangement.

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Published: Mar 01, 1943
Vol/Issue: 8(1)
Pages: 53-64
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Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U. K.

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H. A. Reyburn, J. G. Taylor (1943). On the Interpretation of Common Factors: A Criticism and a Statement. Psychometrika, 8(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02288683

On the Interpretation of Common Factors: A Criticism and a Statement

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