12 sets of data recently analyzed by Chissom and Thomas were reanalyzed using a different method. In contrast to the findings of the earlier study, only about 40% of the total variance of the Frostig subtests proved to be common variance. The present findings lend somewhat greater support to the premise on which the test was constructed.
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