ABSTRACT

The best indicators of intelligence used in research with the battery are essentially uncorrelated with the consistency measures. Within a college population then, the consistency measures apparently tap aspects of phenomenal organization that are independent of general intelligence. In research with children, the author devised a modified syllogism unit that avoids some of the obvious difficulties of the Cattell test. The obvious problems inherent in the syllogism unit led the author to try a slightly different tactic in constructing a test for use in the optimal-personality research battery. There is a need for research designed systematically to explore the meaning of deviant responses in the context of many kinds of item content. The mere decision to seek the kind of information that can be obtained by applying many measures to a large sample imposes practical limitations on the kinds of measures that can be used.