1. NOTE ON FACTOR ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN CULTURE: A REJOINDER.
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Hofstaetter, Peter R.
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FACTOR analysis ,CULTURE ,STATISTICAL correlation ,CRITICISM ,PATH analysis (Statistics) ,PSYCHOLOGISTS - Abstract
The article presents a response to a criticism made on the authors article on factor analysis of American culture. The author has taken the 11 points raised by psychologist E.H. Hsü in the same order Dr. Hsü chose. The author says that using orthogonal rotations he has tried to attain as simple a structure as possible. It is, of course, conceivable that another investigator may obtain a better rotation of the same loadings. Dr. Hsü has, however, not presented any suggestion along that line. The author feels that Dr. Hsü misunderstands the essence of orthogonal rotations when he complains about the fact that the loadings of the unrotated factors are not given in the authors's paper. Orthogonally rotated factor loadings are just as amenable to "further rotations" as are the original centroid results. The author also says that if Dr. Hsüdoubts the acceptability of rotations, he is, of course, free to re-rotate his data. The author regrets that Dr. Hsü has not given any example to support his claim, that "the interpretation of the same variable varies with the factors."
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- 1954
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