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Psychometrics

Intelligence and Conscientiousness

Another interesting editorial from Bruce Charlton, Reliable but dumb or smart but slapdash? Comparing and contrasting g and C as measurable, inheritable traits. Both intelligence and conscientiousness are associated with more success in life, generally considered, and are independent of one another in the statistical sense. Charlton has an interesting

Replacing Education with Psychometrics

Bruce Charlton wrote an editorial for his journal, Medical Hypotheses, on replacing education with more effective psychometric evaluation. That is a pretty bold suggestion, but Charlton is basing his position on some of the same things that inform my opinion on education, so I think it is worth a look.