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Deary, Ian J. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Here, intelligence is taken to mean scores from psychometric tests of cognitive functions. This essay describes how cognitive tests offer assessments of brain functioning--an otherwise difficult-to-assess organ--that have proved enduringly useful in the field of health and medicine. The two "consequential world problems" (the phrase used…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Brain
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Corley, Janie; Crang, Jeremy A.; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2009
The Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 (SMS1932) provides a record of intelligence test scores for almost a complete year-of-birth group of children born in 1921. By linking UK Army personnel records, the Scottish National War Memorial data, and the SMS1932 dataset it was possible to examine the effect of childhood intelligence scores on wartime…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Scores, Children