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Genetic emergence of factor specificity

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Mental test data of Chrysostomm and of Garrett, Bryan, and Perl are reinvestigated in order to determine the shifts in test clusters with chronological age. It is found that the factors under survey tend to become more independent with increasing age.

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  1. Chrysostom, F. L'organization des traits mentaux avec l'age.Annales de l'Assoc. Canadienne-Francoise pour l'avancement des sciences, 1938,4, 124.

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  2. Garrett, Henry E., Bryan, Alive I. & Perl, Ruth E. The age factor in mental organization.Archives of Psychology, No. 176, 1935, pp. 31.

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Richards, T.W. Genetic emergence of factor specificity. Psychometrika 6, 37–42 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02288572

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