Abstract
A Gallup Poll quota sample of 600 English males and 598 English females was administered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and a factor analysis made of the intercorrelations between items, for men and women separately. The results were compared with the results obtained from the original standardization groups, in order to study the influence that attention to sampling might have on factor composition, reliabilities, factor intercorrelations, etc. Indices of factor comparison were all above .98, and all other comparisons, including means and SDs, showed very similar results for the two samples. Correlations between personality factors and socio-economic status were very small; those with age somewhat larger and in the same direction as those in the original sample.
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