Swedish Enlistment Battery (SEB): Construct Validity and Latent Variable Estimation of Cognitive Abilities by the CAT‐SEB

Mårdberg, Bertil; Carlstedt, Berit

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“…The purpose of the enlistment procedure is to assign the conscript to an appropriate duty position. The classification of conscripts to different positions is done according to requirement profiles concerning cognitive, personality, medical and physiological variables (Mårdberg & Carlstedt 1998). The IQ measure we use is a measure of general cognitive ability reported in stanine units (stanine is a contraction of standard and nine and it is a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two).…”

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“…Those who enlisted between 1980 and 1993 also performed four subtests, but concept discrimination was replaced by a synonym test, and paper form board by metal folding (Carlstedt 2000). Finally, those who enlisted in 1994 or later performed ten subtests with inductive reasoning, spatial, verbal and technical comprehension parts (Mårdberg & Carlstedt 1998).…”

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IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

Björklund¹,

Eriksson²,

Jäntti³

2010

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and sibling correlations in IQ. Since siblings share both parental factors and neighbourhood influences, the sibling correlation is a broader measure of the importance of family background than the intergenerational correlation. We use IQ data from the Swedish military enlistment tests. The correlation in IQ between fathers (born 1951-1956) and sons (born 1966-1980) is estimated to 0.347. The corresponding estimate for brothers (born 1951-1968) is 0.473, suggesting that family background explains approximately 50% of a person's IQ. Estimating sibling correlations in IQ we thus find that family background has a substantially larger impact on IQ than has been indicated by previous studies examining only intergenerational correlations in IQ. JEL Classification:J0, I0, J1

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IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

Björklund¹,

Eriksson²,

Jäntti³

2010

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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“…One way to do that is to split each test into half-tests, which are both entered into the CFA model. Mårdberg & Carlstedt (1998) fitted such a model to a battery of tests measuring verbal, spatial and reasoning abilities. The results showed the unique components of variance to be substantially larger for the spatial and reasoning tests than for the verbal tests.…”

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The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: A test of Cattell's Investment theory

2008

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) is a research institute under the Swedish Ministry of Employment, situated in Uppsala. IFAU's objective is to promote, support and carry out scientific evaluations. The assignment includes: the effects of labour market policies, studies of the functioning of the labour market, the labour market effects of educational policies and the labour market effects of social insurance policies. IFAU shall also disseminate its results so that they become accessible to different interested parties in Sweden and abroad. Terms of use: Documents inIFAU also provides funding for research projects within its areas of interest. The deadline for applications is October 1 each year. Since the researchers at IFAU are mainly economists, researchers from other disciplines are encouraged to apply for funding.IFAU is run by a Director-General. The institute has a scientific council, consisting of a chairman, the Director-General and five other members. Among other things, the scientific council proposes a decision for the allocation of research grants. A reference group including representatives for employer organizations and trade unions, as well as the ministries and authorities concerned is also connected to the institute. Papers published in the Working Paper Series should, according to the IFAU policy, have been discussed at seminars held at IFAU and at least one other academic forum, and have been read by one external and one internal referee. They need not, however, have undergone the standard scrutiny for publication in a scientific journal. The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to provide a factual basis for public policy and the public policy discussion. AbstractAccording to Cattell's (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are partly the result of investment of Fluid Intelligence (Gf) in learning situations demanding insights in complex relations. If this theory holds true Gf will be a factor of General Intelligence (g) because it is involved in all domains of learning. The purpose of the current study was to test the Investment theory, through investigating effects on the relation between Gf and g of differential learning opportunities for different subsets of a population. A second-order model was fitted with confirmatory factor analysis to a battery of 17 tests hypothesized to measure four broad cognitive abilities The model was estimated for three groups wi...

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“…We used a retrospective analysis of the Swedish Enlistment Battery (SEB), which measures the general intelligence factor. In Sweden it is legally required that every able man is evaluated for compulsory military service, and during this time the conscripts have various tests, including the SEB [16], with the purpose of classifying them for different military positions based on their results [17]. The SEB is based on the general intelligence factor approaches, but is also guided by theoretical and methodological development with it roots in Scandinavia [1].…”

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General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone

Persson

Becker

Svensson

2008

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and

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We report on the general intellectual capacity of men around 17-19 years of age and with cleft lip either with or without cleft palate (CLP) or cleft palate alone. Data were obtained from the Swedish National Service enrollment register for the years 1991-1997, about 335 individuals with CLP and 88 with cleft palate alone, who were compared with a control group consisting of 272 879 people. Those with CLP showed no significant differences compared with the control group. The group with cleft palate alone had significantly lower general intellectual scores than the control group.

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Swedish Enlistment Battery (SEB): Construct Validity and Latent Variable Estimation of Cognitive Abilities by the CAT‐SEB

Cited by 51 publications

References 8 publications

IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: A test of Cattell's Investment theory

General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone

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