The Relationship Between Measures and Latent Variables

Sally Kohn: It makes no sense whatsoever to imagine a latent dimension of SES that if that changes, all of a sudden your mom has more education. How the heck are you going to model it? She says we find ourselves very often on this other side where we have cause indicators instead of effect indicators.Kohn: I will literally say, tell me about the relationship between the measures that you have and the latent variable.