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Analysis of the structure of the pilot population

The demographic variables define a structure of the pilot community in terms of features that have meaning to the pilots themselves, role in the cockpit, level of experience, and so on. Another sort of structure of the community can be derived from the patterns of responses to the probes. To do this we created a pilotXpilot correlation matrix, where each correlation is a function of the pilots' responses to the 16 attitude probes. In effect, this maps the 547 pilots into a 16 dimensional space.




Ed Hutchins
1999-08-02