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   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: always@ask.questions   
      
   On 16/06/2012 12:34 AM, Immortalist wrote:   
   > If Scientism is an impoverished world view confined solely to what can   
   > be counted, measured and weighed and is a belief in the universal   
   > applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that   
   > empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most   
   > valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints,   
   > and depends mainly upon "Factor Analysis" (a statistical method used   
   > to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms   
   > of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors)   
   > then can the information gained about the interdependencies between   
   > observed variables be used later to reduce the set of variables in a   
   > dataset faithfully in order to approximate truth?   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis   
      
      
   what about Structural Equation Analysis?   
      
      
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