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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White-Black differences in tech tilt: Support for Spearman's law and investment theories
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined tech tilt for Whites and Blacks, two groups with an average ability difference (favoring Whites) of about one standard deviation on tests of general intelligence (g).
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General Intelligence in Friendship Selection: A Study of Preadolescent Best Friend Dyads
TL;DR: The authors found that preadolescent friendship dyads are robustly correlated on measures of general intelligence, and the effects withstand correction for potentially confounding variables, which is consistent with the results in this paper.
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Does Intelligence Predict Academic Achievement? Two Case Studies
TL;DR: This article explored the cognitive abilities of students of pedagogical faculty and their relationship with academic achievement and whether their cognitive abilities are related more to the traditional didactic test (reflecting learned, crystallized abilities) or to the measure of tacit knowledge (extra-class low-effort activities that help to promote academic achievement).
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Working Memory and Intelligence: A Brief Review
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and organized research findings from the past few decades that focused on working memory and intelligence, and found that working memory is a psychological construct that focuses attention, and it is commonly viewed as a temporary storage that holds and manipulates information.
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The relationship between some demographic variables and leadership effectiveness among local government managers in South Africa
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between some demographic variables and leadership effectiveness among local government managers in Eastern Cape Province and found that gender, age and education have a positive and significant relationship with leadership effectiveness.
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