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A Factor Analysis of the Original Stanford-Binet Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Ruth E. Wright
Ruth E. Wright*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

From the original Stanford-Binet scale, those items passed by between 10 and 90 per cent of a group of ten-year-old children were analyzed by the centroid method. Upon rotation, there appeared a common factor, for which two explanatory hypotheses are offered, the more tenable being that it is an effect of maturation. Primary factors tentatively identified are Number, Space, Imagery, Verbal Relations and Induction. A sixth factor apparently involves a reasoning ability and a seventh can not be interpreted.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 1939 , pp. 209 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © 1939 Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The writer is indebted to Dr. L. L. Thurstone for his interest and assistance throughout this study and to Dr. Andrew W. Brown, who made possible the collection of data at the Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago, Illinois.

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