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The Perceptual Factor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

L. L. Thurstone
L. L. Thurstone*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

A further study of the perceptual factor, previously isolated in a factor analysis of a battery of fifty-six tests, is made in a manner designed also to determine whether the same seven primaries would be found in a different population of subjects and with another battery of tests. The tests are described, and the results of the analysis are given in detail. Much attention is given to the matter of the orthogonality of primary factors and to their psychological meaningfulness.

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Original Paper
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Psychometrika , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1938 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © 1938 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Thurstone, L. L., Primary Mental Abilities, to be published by The University of Chicago as the first number of the Psychometric Monograph Series, April, 1938.

References

* The numbering of the tests corresponds to that of the previous battery of fifty-six tests.

* Thurstone, L. L., The Vectors of Mind, The University of Chicago Press, 1935, Chapter 3.

* An economical method of computing the inverse has been devised by Mr. Ledyard Tucker, which he will describe in a forthcoming paper.