There was never any question that Sorensen would retain his leadership role and Hart declined to support some of the items on the group's pro-Israel wish list.
The results support the adequacy of the items used to measure the four systems, with factor loadings ranging from.31 to.75, supporting the content hypothesis.
The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value was satisfactory (.8) and the Bartlett's Test of Sphericity reached statistical significance, supporting the factorability of the items.
Also, if the items did not correlate together as predicted, the authors would not have had evidence supporting the validity of the items comprising a scale and should not then sum them to create scores for each scale.
Further, the Rasch analysis supports the use of the items in their current form as they all contribute to the measure, and all are measuring a different attribute of literacy; as evidenced by appropriate mean-square estimates [ 29– 31].
When evaluating the item residuals of the GSE 7 item version, only one out of 21 correlations (4.7%) was above 0.3, further supporting local independence of the items and unidimensionality.
From this point of view, the rule that '3 options represents a natural limit in most circumstances' would not be supported: About 62% of the items had more than 2 functional distractors, which were selected by ≥1%.
This can be achieved by bringing each cipher item to the same level of support, e.g., to the support of the most frequent item in D. This option would lead to a dramatic explosion of the frequent patterns making pattern mining at the server side computationally prohibitive.
In support of the above assumption, the item 'People do not interact' was correlated with the preference of having a Green wall (0.65, p = 0.01).
According to the stringent post-hoc tests provided by the Rasch measurement model, there is support for the unidimensionality of the items contained within each of the scales.
