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. 2012 Aug 3;26(10):1393. doi: 10.1038/eye.2012.154

Table 1. Cronbach's α scores for each subsection of the inventory for the control and clinical cohorts.

Subsection No. of questions Cronbach's α-controls Cronbach's α-patients
1. Visual fields 13 0.91 0.81
2. Perception of movement 5 0.95 0.81
3. Search 9 0.98 0.71
4. Guidance of movement 11 0.68 0.77
5. Attention 4 0.98 0.56a
6. Crowded scenes 4 1.0 0.82
7. Recognition and navigation 7 1.0 0.77

Scores below 0.7 suggest more than one trait is being investigated by the questions in the subsection, whereas scores above 0.9 suggest redundancy, with questions investigating the same traits.

a

This value became 0.79 on removal of two redundant questions. Within the control group, there was a high degree of redundancy (α values >0.9) for all sections, except for guidance of movement.