PERSON-CLUSTERS ON INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES AND ON MMPI ATTRIBUTES

When persons are observed on multiple dimensions discovered by the objective procedures of the cluster analysis of variables (V-analysis), they can then be allocated to person-clusters by the equally-objective procedures of object-clustering (O-analysis). These procedures, called the Condensation Method, are completely worked out on two empirical studies. In the first study on intellectual abilities (the Holzinger Problem) 301 children are assigned to 15 O-types. In the second study on self-conceptions (the MMPI), 310 psychiatric patients and normals are allocated to 14 O-types. The means of assigning new individuals to these master types are described. All procedures are executed by computer programs of the BC TRY System, in particular the components FACS, OTYPE, and OSTAT. The logic of the methods is fully developed.