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This study examines how Wonderlic scores relate to multiple measures of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. Results show no direct relationship to fluid intelligence after accounting for overlap with working memory capacity. 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Hicks⁎, Tyler L. Harrison, Randall W. Engle\u003Cbr>Georgia Institute of Technology, United States |  |  | |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| a r t i c l e i n f o |  | a b s t r a c t |  |\n| Article history:\u003Cbr>Received 26 February 2014\u003Cbr>Received in revised form 14 March 2015 Accepted 23 March 2015\u003Cbr>Available online xxxx |  | Despite the widespread popularity of the Wonderlic Personnel Test, evidence of its validity as a measure of intelligence and personnel selection is limited. The present study sought to better understand the Wonderlic by investigating its relationship to multiple measures of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. Our results show that Wonderlic has no direct relationship to fluid intelligence once its commonality to working memory capacity is accounted for. Further, we found that the Wonderlic was a significant predictor of working memory capacity for subjects with low fluid intelligence, but failed to discriminate as well among subjects with high fluid intelligence. These results suggest that the predictive power ofthe Wonderlic could depend on the characteristics of the sample it is administered to, whereas the relationship between fluid intelligence and working memory capacity is robust and invariant to the cognitive capabilities of the sample.\u003Cbr>© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |  |\n| Keywords:\u003Cbr>Wonderlic\u003Cbr>Working memory capacity\u003Cbr>Fluid intelligence\u003Cbr>Personnel selection\u003Cbr>General mental abilities |  |  |  |\n\n1. Introduction  \nDespite numerous validation studies and over 200 million administrations in commercial and research domains, the validity of the Wonderlic is largely unknown. Its claim to quickly and easily measure intelligence might appeal to researchers and test-makers alike, but it is important that this claim first be substantiated with supporting research.  \nThe present work seeks to understand this instrument in relation to working memory capacity and novel reasoning. Because of the predictive power of working memory capacity, researchers have begun to use it as a vehicle to understand the core mechanisms involved in reasoning and other constructs of interest (Oberauer et al., 2007). Using measures grounded in a solid theoretical framework such as working memory capacity  \n☆ This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research Grant N00014121040.We would like to thank Zach Shipstead for helpful comments on the data analysis and to members of the Attention and Working Memory Labat Georgia Tech for their help running subjects and collecting the data for the current study. Further, we thank Kasey Harris for helpful suggestions on revisions to the manuscript.  \n⁎ Corresponding author at: School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 654 Cherry Street, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States.  \n[E-mail address:](E-mail address: khicks6@gatech.edu)[ khicks6@gatech.edu](E-mail address: khicks6@gatech.edu) (K.L. Hicks).  \nand fluid intelligence, we can make better inferences about what drives performance on the Wonderlic.  \n2. The Wonderlic  \nEldon Wonderlic's early research interests explored predictors of job performance. His first experiment was a large-scale, exploratory study including indicators of personality, intelligence, and supervisor ratings. The results showed that only the indicator of intelligence, the Otis Self-administering Test of Mental Ability was a significant predictor of job performance (Stevens & Wonderlic, 1934). Further evidence for the validity of the Otis Test for personnel selection was found when Wonderlic conducted a follow-up study in which the number of questions missed and omitted on the Otis Test was found tobe significantly correlated with the job performance of office managers (Stevens & Wonderlic, 1934).  \nDespite these findings, the Otis Test drew criticism from researc","cbCaibLXuJcWuc8q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibLXuJcWuc8q","pdf",872071,"English","# Introduction\n# The Wonderlic\n# Validation","[{\"question\":\"Why does the study investigate the Wonderlic Personnel Test?\",\"answer\":\"Because evidence of the Wonderlic’s validity as a measure of intelligence and for personnel selection is limited, despite its widespread popularity and many administrations.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship does Wonderlic have with fluid intelligence?\",\"answer\":\"Wonderlic shows no direct relationship to fluid intelligence once the shared variance with working memory capacity is accounted for.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Wonderlic perform for predicting working memory across different fluid-intelligence groups?\",\"answer\":\"It significantly predicts working memory capacity for subjects with low fluid intelligence, but it fails to discriminate as well among subjects with high fluid intelligence.\"}]","Hicks,%20Harrison%20and%20Engle%20(2015) | PDF",1789756874,25]