PSC 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Extraversion And Introversion, Factor Analysis, Social Dominance Orientation
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Importance of various things in a person"s life. Survey of 74 undergrads at university of texas at austin. In social settings, providing info about the music we listen to is an important way of conveying info about ourselves. A) strongly disagree e) strongly agree. 50% same sex pairs, 50% opposite sex pairs. Transcripts coded in terms of frequency of words in 7 different topic categories: Music is the most popular topic of conversation. Calculate mean percentage of participants talking about each category. Endorsement of how much a person likes each genre in a list of genres. Start by obtaining info about genre preferences. 14 genres: alternative, blues, classical, country, electronica/ dance, folk, heavy metal, rap/ hip - hop, jazz, pop, religious, rock, soul / funk, & soundtracks. Rate preference of each genre on a 7 point scale ( 1 = not at all; 7. Factor analysis looks for underlying (atent) patterns/ dimensions in the data.
