FA_Competence (Competence)

The second factor of the k=5 solution, Tucker congruence +0.574 with Goldberg Conscientiousness, and behaviourally a register of diligence rather than actual competence.

FA_Competence

Second factor of the centred k=5 oblimin solution; SS loading = 8.42 (qwen35/results/fa_qwen35.md section 7; qwen35/analysis/fa_summary.json#centred_k5.factors[1].ss). Method on Factor analysis of the adapter Gram.

Loadings

Note that two Intellect markers (unintellectual, unintelligent) load negatively here alongside the Conscientiousness ones - the factor picks up a general "careful and capable" pole rather than a pure diligence pole.

Congruence with the Big Five keying

fa_qwen35.md section 6, centred_k5 oblimin row F2:

The +0.214 on Intellect is the numerical form of the two Intellect markers in the loading table. Its Eval congruence (+0.315) is the highest of the five factors - it is the most evaluatively loaded of the k=5 solution (fa_qwen35.md section 8, which records +0.315 as the maximum for centred_k5 oblimin, on F2).

Steering

qwen35/analysis/blog_data.json#replication.FA_Competence: judged as Conscientiousness, slope2 = +1.0166666666666664, sel2 = 2.7570621468926553, slope4 = +0.6121463077984818, sel4 = 2.965005745325394.

qwen35/analysis/qual_fa.json#directions[1].axis_label:

Register of diligence: breezy adolescent improvisation at negative alpha, corporate proceduralism at positive alpha. Delivers its name, but as a register shift rather than as actual competence.

qual_fa_notes.md heads its section "FA_Competence - delivers its name, but a quarter of the slope is damage". Negative pole: slangy, exclamatory, unplanned ("Oh wow", "totally pumped", "whatever feels right"), commitments treated as optional. Positive pole: impersonal management prose - stakeholder analysis, work breakdown structures, KPIs - refusing to improvise or speak in the first person. See Steering the base model along weight-space directions.

Status

Current. qwen35/direction_pages/FA_Competence.html is historical.

Related: Factor analysis of the adapter Gram, axis_Conscientiousness (the named Conscientiousness axis), PC1 - Flooding and Composure, Steering the base model along weight-space directions, Conscientious.