
S1E22: Factor Analysis -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Quantitude
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis - What Is It?
The good is we now can exert control over the perimeter space. The bad well, it's not really confirmatory. Part of the bad is i can make any model fit well. Anything. If you give me crap data by lunch time, i can emo you a model that fits well because all i have to do is just keep throwing perimeters at it. I am king of the county, you lord of the mamor im queen of the castle. It's a priori, its confirmatory, right? We milld this little fort out of equations and ki squares and r m s a and says, well, this was a confirmatory factor analysis. I couldn't
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