ABSTRACT
It takes a clever, but also a courageous, academic to research the topic of intelligence – or general mental ability (GMA) these days. One perhaps has to be even more confident and certain as a human resource manager to suggest, and then use, intelligence (cognitive ability) tests in selection, appraisal, assessment and development centres. The topic has become highly politically loaded and cries by researchers to be left alone to do disinterested scientific enquiry fall on deaf ears.
