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The MacQuarrie Test for Mechanical Ability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Robert L. Chapman
Robert L. Chapman*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

Data originally analyzed by Charles H. Goodman on the MacQuarrie Test for Mechanical Ability are subjected to the principal axes factoring method. The maximum variance was extracted with three factors. Rotation to an oblique simple structure yielded a factor pattern which satisfies the simple structure concept more adequately than the orthogonal factor matrix, thus leading to greater clarity of interpretation of the factors.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 1948 , pp. 175 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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