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While such questionnaires exist for most learning style models, their validity and reliability is an important issue and has to be investigated to guarantee that the questionnaire really assesses what the learning style theory aims at. In this paper, we focus on the Index of Learning Styles (ILS), a 44\u2010item questionnaire to identify learning styles based on Felder\u2010 Silverman learning style model. The aim of this paper is to analyse data gathered from ILS by a data\u2010driven approach in order to investigate relationships within the learning styles. Results, obtained by Multiple Correspondence Analysis and cross\u2010validated by correlation analysis, show the consistent dependencies between some learning styles and lead then to conclude for scarce validity of the ILS questionnaire. Some latent dimensions present in data, that are unexpected, are discussed. 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