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Spearman's General Intelligence

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Spearman proposed a general intelligence factor, g, because performance across different mental tasks tends to correlate.

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People who score well on vocabulary tests also tend to score well on spatial reasoning tests.

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A correlation across tasks establishes a statistical factor. What that factor is remains disputed.