PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mutual Exclusion, Factor Analysis, Normal Distribution
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Which is the tension between trait and a type. Types a type is categorical: types are mutually exclusive, may have 3 possibilities, a, b and c, each which will denote a different class and figuring out which type a person will belong to. Not clear when something is part of the type and when kind (as opposed to degree which we see in traits: they are qualitatively different (not quantitative) If you are type a, we know for a fact that you do not belong in type b or c: very different way of thinking about how people differ . The reason why trait and type perservere is because they show 2 different approaches of the structure. Looking for clusters of variables that hang together these. Take what goes into a factor analysis and flip it. So have people in the columns and scores in the rows.
