Right—well, there are plenty of individual skills which are poorly correlated with g.
If you selected a whole bunch of tests that are not g-loaded, you would have similar results.
What you would normally want to do is to see what they have in common (r) and then see how much variation in common cognitive functioning is explained by r.
The classical expectation would be: not very much: other general factors are normally thought to be of low significance—relative to g.
The other thing to mention is that many so-called “cognitive biases” are actually adaptive. Groupthink, the planning fallacy, restraint bias, optimism bias, etc.
One would expect that many of these would—if anything—be negatively correlated with other measures of ability.
Right—well, there are plenty of individual skills which are poorly correlated with g.
If you selected a whole bunch of tests that are not g-loaded, you would have similar results.
What you would normally want to do is to see what they have in common (r) and then see how much variation in common cognitive functioning is explained by r.
The classical expectation would be: not very much: other general factors are normally thought to be of low significance—relative to g.
The other thing to mention is that many so-called “cognitive biases” are actually adaptive. Groupthink, the planning fallacy, restraint bias, optimism bias, etc. One would expect that many of these would—if anything—be negatively correlated with other measures of ability.