Abstract
MOST psychologists have assumed that all mental activities are reducible to a small number of independent ‘factors', such as intelligence, emotionality, verbal capacity, manual capacity, introversion or its opposite, and the like. Prof. Thomson's book is concerned, not so much with discovering what these factors may be, but rather with a critical examination of the mathematical procedure by which, it has been claimed, their existence may be established.
The Factorial Analysis of Human Ability
By Prof. Godfrey H. Thomson. Pp. xv + 326. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1939.) 16s. net.
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B., C. The Factorial Analysis of Human Ability. Nature 144, 532–533 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144532b0
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