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Students of literary inclination excel on verbal tests while scientifically inclined students excel on constructive tests, with no digit-span difference

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q2 i? Dividing tests into verbal, digit-span and constructive groups, literary-minded examinees excelled on verbal tests, scientifically inclined examinees on constructive tests, and the two groups did not differ on digit-span results. → Caldwell 1919

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Caldwell 1919

Caldwell, Helen Hubbert. (1919). Adult Tests of the Stanford Revision Applied to College Students. The Journal of Educational Psychology, X(10). https://doi.org/10.1037/h0074484

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Exploratory subgroup analysis from Downey's data as reported in this article: performance was divided into verbal, digit-span and constructive test groups and compared across students of literary versus scientific inclination, with no group difference on the digit-span series.

"Those reagents of a literary turn of mind excelled in the verbal tests, those scientifically inclined scored higher on the constructive group, while results of the digit-span series showed no difference between groups."

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title Students of literary inclination excel on verbal tests while scientifically inclined students excel on constructive tests, with no digit-span difference
description Students of literary inclination excel on verbal tests while scientifically inclined students excel on constructive tests, with no digit-span difference
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