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Study of Some Factors Related to Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

H. J. A. Rimoldi
H. J. A. Rimoldi*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

From the factorial analysis of a battery of nineteen individual tests seven factors were obtained, six of them being interpreted. Some of these factors are probably related to similar ones isolated in different batteries and by different authors. The test Progressive Matrices here analyzed is loaded in some of the factors, as was expected according to the nature of its problems and to previous experience with the test. The loadings of the tests and of the factors in the second-order factors are given. It is expected that this extension of factor theory will prove useful for the isolation of more fundamental psychological parameters, although at present it is difficult to evaluate precisely the theoretical and practical implications of this aspect of factor analysis.

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Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1948 , pp. 27 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This study was carried on under a State Department Grant and a Frank's Fund Fellowship at the University of Chicago. The author wishes to express his most sincere thanks to Prof. L. L. Thurstone for his advice and invaluable assistance and to V. S. Tracht for his help in preparing the manuscript.

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