This test can no longer be taken. It consisted of Association and Analogies (French) (70 items) and Space, Time, and Hyperspace (28). In the total score, the spatial subtest was weighted by 2.5, so that the maximum score was 140. The statistics of the subtests are in the relevant reports.
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44 | * |
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59 | ** |
61 | * |
65 | * |
69 | * |
Test name | n | r |
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Short Test For Genius | 2 | 1.00 |
Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (raw) | 2 | 1.00 |
Mega Test (Ronald K. Hoeflin) | 2 | 1.00 |
Strict Logic Sequences Exam I (Jonathan Wai) | 2 | 1.00 |
Sigma Test (Melão Hindemburg) | 2 | 1.00 |
Association and Analogies (French) | 10 | 0.94 |
Analogies subtest of Long Test For Genius (French) | 10 | 0.94 |
Numbers | 5 | 0.86 |
Association subtest of Long Test For Genius (French) | 10 | 0.79 |
Non-Verbal Cognitive Performance Examination (Xavier Jouve) | 4 | 0.67 |
Space, Time, and Hyperspace | 10 | 0.65 |
Unknown and miscellaneous tests | 3 | 0.64 |
Logima Strictica 36 (Robert Lato) | 2 | -1.00 |
Weighted average of correlations: 0.782 (N = 64, weighted sum = 50)
Estimated g factor loading: 0.88
These are estimated g factor loadings, but against homogeneous tests (containing only particular item types) as opposed to non-compound heterogeneous tests. Although tending to surprise the lay person, it is not uncommon for tests to have high loadings on item types they do not actually contain themselves. Such loadings reflect the empirical fact that most tests for mental abilities measure primarily g, regardless of their contents; that the major part of test score variance is caused by g, and only a minor part by factors germane to particular item types. It is of key importance to understand that this is a fact of nature, a natural phenomenon, and not something that was built into the tests by the test constructors.
Type | n | g loading of Long Test For Genius (French) on that type |
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Verbal | 30 | 0.94 |
Numerical | 7 | 0.95 |
Spatial | 10 | 0.81 |
Heterogeneous | 10 | 0.93 |
N = 57
Balanced g loading = 0.91
Country | n | median score |
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France | 6 | 55.0 |
Personalia | n | r |
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Year of birth | 10 | -0.00 |
Sex | 10 | -0.23 |
In parentheses the number of score pairs on which that estimated g factor loading is based. The goal of this is to verify the hypothesis that g becomes less important, accounts for a smaller proportion of the variance, at higher I.Q. levels. The mere fact of restricting the range like this also depresses the g loading compared to computing it over the test's full range, so it would be normal for these values to be lower than the test's full-range g loading.
Below 1st quartile | 0.98 (11) |
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Below median | 0.73 (26) |
Above median | 0.68 (31) |
Above 3rd quartile | 0.59 (18) |
Computed from the subtest reliabilities using a form of the Spearman-Brown formula.