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What intelligence tests miss | BPS Cognition and perception What intelligence tests miss Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West on why we need rationality quotient (RQ) tests as well as IQ tests. 15 February 2014 Share this page In psychology and among the lay public alike, high scores on intelligence tests are considered a mark of good thinking. This is not unreasonable. It is now over 100 years since Spearman first reported a single general intelligence factor, known as g or 'the positive manifold' – the tendency for scores on different cognitive tests to correlate. Indeed, it is rare that a

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