%0 Article %T A contribution to discussion on the application of factor analysis %A Riihinen, Päiviö %D 1971 %J Silva Fennica %V 5 %N 3 %R doi:10.14214/sf.a14653 %U https://silvafennica.fi/article/4851 %X

A hypothetic problem is outlined as an example of the type of problem to which factor analysis should not be applied. Apart from this, attention is paid to industrialisation, a concept characterised by several variables, none of which can be held constant while analysing its influence on attitudes by multi-variable cross-tabulation techniques.

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