TY - JOUR
T1 - Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes
AU - Ganzach, Yoav
AU - Zisman, Chen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - We welcome Golsteyn, Heckman, and Humphries (this issue) comment regarding the roles of personality and intelligence for in predicting important life outcomes. In an earlier paper, Borghans, Golsteyn, Heckman, and Humphries (2016) argued that personality variables were stronger predictors of life outcomes than intelligence. In a rejoinder, Zisman and Ganzach (2022) analyzed some of the same data sets, and others, and came to the opposite conclusion. In their response in this issue, three of the authors of the original paper suggested that the disagreement stems from an inappropriate reliance on grades and achievement tests, and in particular the AFQT, as measures of intelligence. In the current comment we discuss the appropriateness of these measures, review the sources of the disagreement, and emphasize that Ganzach and Zisman's conclusion that intelligence is more important than personality in predicting life outcomes does not depend on this disagreement.
AB - We welcome Golsteyn, Heckman, and Humphries (this issue) comment regarding the roles of personality and intelligence for in predicting important life outcomes. In an earlier paper, Borghans, Golsteyn, Heckman, and Humphries (2016) argued that personality variables were stronger predictors of life outcomes than intelligence. In a rejoinder, Zisman and Ganzach (2022) analyzed some of the same data sets, and others, and came to the opposite conclusion. In their response in this issue, three of the authors of the original paper suggested that the disagreement stems from an inappropriate reliance on grades and achievement tests, and in particular the AFQT, as measures of intelligence. In the current comment we discuss the appropriateness of these measures, review the sources of the disagreement, and emphasize that Ganzach and Zisman's conclusion that intelligence is more important than personality in predicting life outcomes does not depend on this disagreement.
KW - Achievement tests
KW - Important life outcomes
KW - Intelligence
KW - Personality
KW - The bell curve debates
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U2 - 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101679
DO - 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101679
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AN - SCOPUS:85134540371
SN - 0160-2896
VL - 94
JO - Intelligence
JF - Intelligence
M1 - 101679
ER -