Re: Just a short comment on Factor Analysis, and on God...

From: George Hammond (ghammond@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun May 20 2001 - 19:04:45 EDT

  • Next message: Vince D. Calhoun: "Re: Just a short comment on Factor Analysis, and on God..."

    Vince D. Calhoun wrote:
    >
    > >[Hammond]
    > >but today these rotations are done purely mathematically
    > >by large computers (untouched by human hands) so
    > >they are no longer "subjective". Varimax, Promax,
    > >Oblimon, and many other hyperplane count algorithms are
    >
    > Yes, I am aware of this...but the computer does what it is told to do, and
    > there are many "knobs" which can be turned slightly to produce desired
    > results. My point is simply that you don't describe all the many
    > "subjective" details that go into finding the results you present.

    [Hammond]
    Your remarks are only suitably addressed to some researcher
    doing a single experiment. The scientific proof of God is
    based on ALL THE RESULTS of the entire 100 year history of
    Psychometric Factor Analysis. See y other post where it explains
    how the 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13-Factor models are ALL EXPLAINED.
      Now you point out that this inaccuracy and that inaccuracy
    may affect any given result.... but over 100 years, and 250,000
    experiments these irregularities average out. today there is clear
    consensus that there "is a structural model" at the 2nd order,
    and here is clear consensus that "Eysenck's E,N,P" are the first
    3 Factors. Of course, IQ is also undeniably established also.
    As I point out in the other post (an hour ago) the other 10
    Factors are "oblique" while only E,N,P,g (g=iq) are ORTHOGONAL.
    Hammond 1994, announces the explanation of this mystery, being
    that all the Factors are symmetry axes of a CUBE because the
    BRAIN IS CUBIC. Therefore, there will b 3-Orthogonal Factors,
    and 10 oblique factors and they will fit a CUBE exactly.... and
    Hammond shows that the data confirms this all 100 years worth).
    Finally, IQ is the 4th (Time) dimension.
      A copy of my published paper explaining all this is located
    at:

    http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/cart.html

    I don't expect anybody to get their feet down off the desk
    and actually read this paper, of course. What i realize is
    that NOBODY will ever read it until all of a sudden torch
    wielding mobs of Creationists and Fundamentalist religious
    zealots start storming the governor's mansion as they
    apparently did to the Kansas Board of Education... claiming
    that they have found a scientific proof of God and
    Fundamentalist truth against the Evolutionists etc.
      To bad I have to do this the hard way... but there is simply no
    other way to get you people out of he way so we can improve
    the world for the poor and the suffering.

    snip... rest of For His Glory's elementary harangue
    about the pitfalls of Factor Analysis.

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