Commenting on the “Great Debate”: General Abilities, Specific Abilities, and the Tools of the Trade

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dc.citation.issueNumber1
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Intelligence
dc.citation.volumeNumber7
dc.contributor.authorBeier, Margaret E.
dc.contributor.authorKell, Harrison J.
dc.contributor.authorLang, Jonas W.B.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-17T20:08:22Z
dc.date.available2021-12-17T20:08:22Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWe review papers in the special issue regarding the great debate on general and specific abilities. Papers in the special issue either provided an empirical examination of the debate using a uniform dataset or they provided a debate commentary. Themes that run through the papers and that are discussed further here are that: (1) the importance of general and specific ability predictors will largely depend on the outcome to be predicted, (2) the effectiveness of both general and specific predictors will largely depend on the quality and breadth of how the manifest indicators are measured, and (3) research on general and specific ability predictors is alive and well and more research is warranted. We conclude by providing a review of potentially fruitful areas of future research.
dc.identifier.citationBeier, Margaret E., Kell, Harrison J. and Lang, Jonas W.B.. "Commenting on the “Great Debate”: General Abilities, Specific Abilities, and the Tools of the Trade." <i>Journal of Intelligence,</i> 7, no. 1 (2019) MDPI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence7010005.
dc.identifier.digitaljintelligence-07-00005-v2
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence7010005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/111879
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI
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