Which one of the following factor loadings would lead to a recommendation to discard a variable in a factor?
A) bivariate scatterplots that suggest a linear relationship between variables
B) R squared values, computed from a regression model for an individual variable where that variable is the dependent variable and all remaining variables are the independent variables, which are near zero
C) statistically significant Mahalanobis distance scores
D) units that have been randomly sampled from a population

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Multivariate outliers are evidenced by statistically significant Mahalanobis distance scores (alpha = .001 if you tend toward the liberal edge, which is appropriate with EFA), evaluated using a chi square distribution with degrees of freedom equal to the number of variables.

Which One of the Following Factor Loadings Would Lead to a Recommendation