To summarize practices in sample size in EFA in the literature, we surveyed two years’ worth of PsychINFO articles that both reported some form of principal components or exploratory factor analysis and listed both the number of subjects and the number of items analyzed (N = 303). We decided the best method for standardizing our sample size data was subject to item ratio, since we needed a criterion for a reasonably direct comparison to our own data analysis. In the studies reporting scale construction, the number of items in the initial item pool were recorded rather than the number of items kept for the final version of the scale, since the subject to item ratio is determined by how many items each subject answered or was measured on, not how many were kept after analysis. The results of this survey and are summarized in Table 1. A large percentage of researchers report factor analyses using relatively small samples