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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 25 February 2014 07:47:44PM 3 points [-]

Keith Stanovich argues that IQ tests not only miss personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness but also purely cognitive abilities. These other cognitive abilities he terms "rationality". His ideas are very well summarized here:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2g1/what_intelligence_tests_miss_the_psychology_of/

Comment author: gwern 25 February 2014 08:12:44PM 6 points [-]

Thompson makes some interesting comments on the topic of Stanovich: http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-many-headed-hydra-of-alternate.html