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PREDICTING TRAINING SUCCESS: NOT MUCH MORE THAN g
Author(s) -
REE MALCOLM JAMES,
EARLES JAMES A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1991.tb00961.x
Subject(s) - psychology , aptitude , vocational education , test (biology) , predictive validity , training (meteorology) , principal (computer security) , selection (genetic algorithm) , applied psychology , personnel selection , statistics , econometrics , machine learning , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , mathematics , computer science , paleontology , biology , operating system , physics , meteorology
The roles of general ability ( g ) and specific abilities ( s 1 … s g ) were investigated in prediction of job‐training‐school grades. Subjects were 78,041 Air Force enlistees in 82 jobs. General ability and specific abilities were defined by scores on the first and subsequent unrotated principal components of the enlistment selection and classification test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Linear models analyses revealed that s 1 … s 9 added little to the prediction afforded by g. It was also determined that a common prediction equation for all jobs was almost as predictive as an equation for each job.