Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
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In this paper, the authors provide evidence that intelligence has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essentially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing, and the more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well.About:
This article is published in Intelligence.The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1300 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Everyday life & Cognitive complexity.read more
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The development and validation of an automatic-item generation measure of cognitive ability
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental non-verbal measure of cognitive ability through automatic item generation, using an innovative item type, was developed, using a sample o f 333 adults, and the results o f the current analysis support the proposed cognitive model's ability to explain item difficulty.
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Developing talents: A longitudinal examination of intellectual ability and academic achievement
TL;DR: The Fullerton Longitudinal study offers a unique opportunity to model the stability of intelligence and achievement and their relations from elementary through secondary school using latent variable modeling, and fit a cross-lagged panel model to examine the relations between intelligence and academic achievement in two academic domains: mathematics and reading.
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Spearman's hypothesis tested comparing Korean young adults with various other groups of young adults on the items of the Advanced Progressive Matrices.
Jan te Nijenhuis,Yu Yong Choi,Michael van den Hoek,Ekaterina Valueva,Ekaterina Valueva,Kun Ho Lee +5 more
TL;DR: All four hypotheses were confirmed, showing that a part of the subtest-level nomological net replicates at the item level, strengthening the position that, with concern to Spearman’s hypothesis, subtests and items function fundamentally the same.
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The Influence of Individual and Team Cognitive Ability on Operators' Task and Safety Performance: A Multilevel Field Study in Nuclear Power Plants
TL;DR: It is found that at the individual level, operators’ GMA was predictive of their task and safety performance and this trend became more significant as they accumulated more experience and a “big-fish-little-pond” effect insofar as team GMA had a relatively smaller effect.
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Average County-Level IQ Predicts County-Level Disadvantage and Several County-Level Mortality Risk Rates.
TL;DR: In this paper, the association between county-level IQ scores and early mortality risk was analyzed by testing a theoretical model where county IQ influences county disadvantage which, in turn, influences county mortality risk.
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