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Re: st: Generate one score for 2+ factors?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Generate one score for 2+ factors?
Date
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:09:24 +0100
That's an example of a very good argument.
Nick
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On 27 June 2013 08:56, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>> If you want a single construct to use you
>> need really good arguments not to use Factor 1.
>
> One situation where you might choose Factor 2 over Factor 1 can occur
> when you have a set of question where some are phrased positive and
> others are phrased negative. There is a tendency for respondents to
> agree with whatever is being said, and the first factor may pick that
> up. You'll see that when the first factor loads highly on all
> positively phrased statements and has low loadings for the negatively
> phrased statements (or vice versa). That would be a case where I would
> consider the first factor as measuring an uninteresting artefact, and
> I would move on to the next factor.
>
> -- Maarten
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