Specific Abilities May Increment Psychometric g for High Ability Populations

Abstract

Spearmans Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR) postulates that correlations among cognitive ability tests are lower for higher ability groups, yet higher for low-ability groups. SLODR also suggests that specific ability tests are most likely to add incrementally beyond general cognitive ability to the prediction of performance for high-ability occupations. Results demonstrated that the Cyber Knowledge test added incremental prediction to general cognitive ability and the primary cognitive group factors against key criteria for high-ability soldiers assigned to cyber occupations. These criteria include training performance ratings and in person-job fit outcomes. Includes PowerPoint poster presentation (1 slide). Presented at 2016 SIOP Conference in Anaheim, California, April 14-16, 2016.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 14, 2016
Accession Number
AD1010433

Entities

People

  • James Meaden
  • Kristophor Canali
  • Peter J. Legree

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Education
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Training

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Organizational Psychology.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber