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by mdp2021 1155 days ago
> But it probably won't make you better at tests of cognitive capacity

How do you test «cognitive capacity»? The other day on these pages a newcomer came and wrote he "distrusts them <category>". Some call ignorance relevant to "cognitive capacity".

(Some call it "much more than just relevant".)
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isaacfrond 1155 days ago
It's in the paper. You present a battery of tasks, and see how well you do. In this case, twelve cognitive tests were included:

Double Trouble

Spatial Planning

Odd One Out

Grammatical Reasoning

Feature Match

Polygons

Digit Span

Rotations

Token Search

Paired Associates

Spatial Span

Monkey Ladder

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VLM 1155 days ago
> It's in the paper.

Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.

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InfamousRece 1155 days ago
Most of us use scihub to retrieve papers.
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michaelt 1155 days ago
Presumably they mean 'g factor' [1]

Although somewhat ironically, the person who proposed 'g factor' was specifically reporting correlations between student performance in latin, french, english, maths and music.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

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