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Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life

Linda S. Gottfredson
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 1, pp 79-132
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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.
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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.

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Linking workplace literacy skills and transfer system perceptions

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Is there a relationship between political orientation and cognitive ability? A test of three hypotheses in two studies

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The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether IQ relates systematically to denomination and income within the framework of the g nexus, using representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY97) and found that modern Atheists are reacting rationally to cognitive and emotional challenges, whereas Liberals and Dogmatics still rely on ancient, pre-rational, supernatural and wishful thinking.
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Cognitive sex differences in reasoning tasks: Evidence from Brazilian samples of educational settings

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the principal axis factoring of test scores to determine whether sex differences existed at the level of general intelligence and found that females outperformed males on the Attention Test (AC), the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and the Brazilian Cognitive Battery (BPR5), using four large samples (total N = ǫ6780), residing in the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.
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Executive function processes predict mobility outcomes in older adults.

TL;DR: To examine the relationship between performance on executive function measures and subsequent mobility outcomes in community‐dwelling older adults, a large number of older adults are randomly assigned to a one-size‐fits‐all or two-size-fits-all model.
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