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One century of intelligence research, generally performed on samples from developed countries, has shown the existence of a general model of intelligence (or g factor). In our study, we tested this model using data from the SLATINT Project. A positive manifold of correlations was found and results from SEM modeling (Structural Equation Modeling), using the total sample and each Latin American sample, indicated that a single-factor model (or g factor) fit the data adequately, i.e., a general cognitive ability influenced performance on a set of cognitive ability measures.
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Flores-Mendoza, C., Ardila, R., Rosas, R., Lucio, M.E., Gallegos, M., Reátegui Colareta, N. (2018). Cognitive Factor Structure: The g Factor. In: Intelligence Measurement and School Performance in Latin America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89975-6_2
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