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SECOND ORDER FACTORS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
Author(s) -
Bernyer G.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
british journal of statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0950-561X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1958.tb00188.x
Subject(s) - thurstone scale , oblique case , simple (philosophy) , object (grammar) , group (periodic table) , set (abstract data type) , mathematics , cognition , theory of computation , order (exchange) , factor (programming language) , basis (linear algebra) , psychology , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , epistemology , algorithm , geometry , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , organic chemistry , finance , neuroscience , economics , programming language
The object of the following inquiry is to compare the results obtained by factorizing the same set of data according to (i) Thurstone's method of “oblique simple structure” and (ii) Burt's method of “overlapping” and “subdivided” group factors. For this purpose the correlations between Thurstone's oblique factors were made the basis of an analysis into what he has called “second order factors” and a simple working procedure was devised which enables the investigator to transform the oblique factors into a factor pattern including both general and group factors. Two batteries of tests, differing slightly in their composition, have been applied to two different groups. With both sets of data much the same factors were ultimately obtained with both procedures; and the factor pattern was fully consistent with Burt's theory of a “hierarchical classification” leading to “subdivided group factors”. Thus the results obtained by Thurstone's procedure, when carried to its logical completion, so far from being incompatible with Burt's theory of a hierarchical classification by subdivided factors, tends to confirm it.