1. Factor Analysis ¶
Questionnaire:
- Statiscs makes me cry
- My friends will think I'm stupid for not being able to cope with SPSS
- Standard deviations excite me
- I dream that Pearson is attacking me with correlation coefficients
- I don't understand statistics
- I have little experience of computers
- All computers hate me
- I have never been good at mathematics
- My friends are better at statistics than me
- Computers are useful only for playing games
- I did badly at mathematics at school
- People try to tell you that SPSS makes statistics easier to understand but it doesn't
- I worry that I will cause irreparable damage because of my incompetenece with computers
- Computers have minds of their own and deliberately go wrong whenever I use them
- Computers are out to get me
- I weep openly at the mention of central tendency
- I slip into a coma whenever I see an equation
- SPSS always crashes when I try to use it
- Everybody looks at me when I use SPSS
- I can't sleep for thoughts of eigen vectors
- I wake up under my duvet thinking that I am trapped under a normal distribtion
- My friends are better at SPSS than I am
- If I'm good at statistics my friends will think I'm a nerd