What Is General Intelligence (g)?

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What the general factor is, how researchers obtain it from many different cognitive tests, what an individual's g score means, and why g is not the same thing as IQ.

What Is Intelligence?

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A scientific guide to what we mean by intelligence—in humans, other animals, artificial systems and the study of cognitive ability.