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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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
TL;DR: Grit demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness, suggesting that the achievement of difficult goals entails not only talent but also the sustained and focused application of talent over time.
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Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implica- tions of individual differences in performance for each of the four explanations of the normative/descriptive gap, including performance errors, computational limitations, the wrong norm being applied by the experi- menter, and a different construal of the task by the subject.
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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
TL;DR: A pesar de la relativamente corta historia de la Psicologia como ciencia, existen pocos constructos psicologicos que perduren 90 anos despues de their formulación and continuen plenamente vigentes in la actualidad as mentioned in this paper.
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Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor analytic studies
TL;DR: A survey of factor analytic studies of human cognitive abilities can be found in this paper, with a focus on the role of factor analysis in human cognitive ability evaluation and cognition. But this survey is limited.
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Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
TL;DR: It is concluded that it is possible to improve Gf without practicing the testing tasks themselves, opening a wide range of applications.
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Performance in Four Army Jobs by Men at Different Aptitude (AFQT) levels: 3. The Relationship of (AFQT) and Job Experience to Job Performance
Robert Vineberg,Elaine N. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study was made of approximately 1500 men with experience ranging up to 20 years in four different Army MOSs, including men with Armed Forces Qualification Test scores in the marginal range and a comparison group of men in the same jobs, but in the upper AFQT levels.
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Can we count on muddling through the g crisis in employment
TL;DR: In this article, a critique of Seymour's (1988) new analyses is presented, which purport to reveal unsuspected racial unfairness in tests, thereby compromising the fundamental principle of merit.