Which of the following would you not do or use when deciding how many factors to retain from an exploratory factor analysis?

A. Select the number of factors with eigenvalues of 1.00 or higher.
B. Examine a scree plot of eigenvalues plotted against the factor numbers.
C. Disregard any high communalities.
D. Analyse increasing numbers of factors, and stop when all non-trivial variance is accounted for.


Answer: C

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