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Cattell's Sixteen Factors

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Cattell used factor analysis to reduce trait vocabulary to sixteen underlying source traits.

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Thousands of descriptive words were statistically reduced to a smaller set of dimensions.

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Factor analysis does not reveal how many factors exist. The number chosen depends on decisions the analyst makes.