Word: predictors
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...scale can capture all of human intelligence. That is why testers work so hard learning and using multiple-factor analysis and other statistical techniques to parcel out the numerous (up to 120, some experts say) components of intelligence. Nevertheless, the one-dimensional I.Q. continues to be the best single predictor of academic performance and one of the best single predictors of social status. The I.Q. is essentially a combination of many of the dimensions of intelligence, just as your height is essentially a combination of the vertical lengths of your feet, your shins, your knees...
...Educational achievement is the best known predictor of occupational standing, even according to Messrs. Bowles and Gintis (with whom I disagree on other matters). Moreover, I.Q. is the best known predictor of educational achievement. Finally, genetic factors are the main known determiners of I.Q. That is the chain of findings that I have tried to bring to public attention. Contrary to Mrs. Kilbreth's impression, I have yet to see facts to the contrary. There are, to be sure, differences among scholars on the empirical details, which I hope I have fairly reflected in my book...
...This must be the most virtuous of all possible conventions," declared Chief Predictor Hachiro Asano as 100 crack fortunetellers from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and India assembled in Seoul for a three-day meeting that ended last week. Drinking and sex were explicitly barred because, as Asano explained, "We must remain pure" for important responsibilities-that is, agreeing on answers to ten of the world's weightiest questions...
...Gintis's studies show that schools discriminate in favor of those with high I.Q.'s and that the more school one completes, the more one will absorb these personality traits which determine job status. But Gintis warns that I.Q. tells us little that is not already known: as a predictor "social class, independent of I.Q., is a much better determinant of educational and occupational attainment...