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> 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 w
by mdp2021 4y 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".)
- isaacfrond 4y agoIt'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
- VLM 4y ago> It's in the paper. Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.
- InfamousRece 4y agoMost of us use scihub to retrieve papers.
- michaelt 4y agoPresumably 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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)