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The "g" hypothesis itself was built upon an abuse of factor analysis. An abuse that had a high chance of producing something spurious.
by ogogmad 6y ago
The "g" hypothesis itself was built upon an abuse of factor analysis. An abuse that had a high chance of producing something spurious.
- barry-cotter 6y agoFor a much, much longer treatment of the argument ogomad gestures towards, read Cosma Shalizi[1] g, A Statistical Myth. Note that most of the criticism applies as well to temperature or pressure as to g. For a detailed response to Shalizi, see Human Varieties[2]. [1] http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html [2] https://humanvarieties.org/2013/04/03/is-psychometric-g-a-myth/ https://humanvarieties.org/2013/04/03/is-psychometric-g-a-my...