Journal Article10.1016/0001-8791(86)90013-8
Cognitive ability, cognitive aptitudes, job knowledge, and job performance
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TL;DR: This paper showed that general cognitive ability predicts objective, rigorously content valid work sample performance with even higher validity than specific cognitive aptitudes and concluded that it is not specific cognitive skills that predict performance.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior. The article was published on 01 Dec 1986. The article focuses on the topics: Job attitude & Job performance.
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