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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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Joint relation of experience and ability with job performance: Test of three hypotheses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate three hypotheses of the joint relation of job experience and general mental ability to job performance as measured by work sample measures, job knowledge measures, and supervisory ratings of job performance.
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The g-ocentric View of Intelligence and Job Performance Is Wrong

TL;DR: Ree and Earles as mentioned in this paper summarized a vast research literature on the efficacy of g, or general intelli gence, in predicting job performance, both in training phases and in application of job knowledge and skills to actual job performance.
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Incorporating General Intelligence into Epidemiology and the Social Sciences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the value of examining a variety of pressing behavioral, medical, and social phenomena as they relate to gradations in general intelligence, and argue that if consulted more often, the construct of general intelligence would contribute to understanding many puzzling human phenomena, because successive gradations of intelligence reflect successive degrees of risk.
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Psychometrics, intelligence, and public perception.

TL;DR: Herrnstein and Murray (1994, pp. 22-23) stated six propositions concerning a g factor of intelligence and examined them for support in the scientific literature as discussed by the authors.