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Appropriate factor scoring procedure depends in part upon whether or not factors are rotated. A simplification which may be applied to unrotated factors leads in the case of orthogonal rotation to inaccurate scores which may be substantially intercorrelated.

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Scoring Orthogonally Rotated Factors

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