Can aptitude tests really predict your performance?
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 07:31
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- Colleges, employers, and the military all use aptitude tests to predict how well someone might do. In recent years, some critics of these tests have said there isnt much difference in performance above a certain levelthat, above a certain threshold, everyone is more or less the same. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the authors find that this isnt true. Instead, the higher your score, the better you perform later.