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If you decided to invest in the stock market, your first goal might be to look at various indicators of stock market performance. You would be unlikely to make a large investment based on a single indicator, such as the company’s profits or debit position, because a company’s performance depends on many variables. People are the same way. Their future performance depends on a number of variables, and any one indicator would be incomplete and probably misleading. Yet we make predictions about people’s performance on the basis of small numbers of indicators, sometimes a single one. This single indicator usually goes under the name of “an intelligence test,” “a test of mental abilities,” or “a scholastic aptitude test.”
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Sternberg, R.J. (1992). CAT: A Program of Comprehensive Abilities Testing. In: Gifford, B.R., O’Connor, M.C. (eds) Changing Assessments. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2968-8_6
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