Expanding the g-nexus: Further evidence regarding the relations among national IQ, religiosity and national health outcomes

Manifestations of intelligence: Expanding the measurement space to reconsider specific cognitive abilities

“…Going back to the early 1900s, a broad array of psychometric, biological, and behavioral genetic evidence (e.g., see Carroll, 1993;Jensen, 1998) has given rise to a broad consensus among experts that cognitive abilities are real psychological constructs (Gottfredson, 1997a;Reeve & Charles, 2008;Snyderman & Rothman, 1987), that they have a significant and meaningful influence on important real-world outcomes (e.g. Batty et al, 2008;Gottfredson, 1997Gottfredson, , 2004Kuncel et al, 2004;Reeve, 2009;Schmidt & Hunter, 1998), that they have a basis in human biology and physiology (Gottfredson, 1997;Deary, 2009 [special issues of Intelligence]; Lubinski, 2004 [special section of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology]) and that they are consistent with predictions from evolutionary psychology (Kanazawa, 2004;Kanazawa, 2010;Reeve, Lyerly, & Peach, 2013). When domain-specific constructs or alternative complex constructs such as "cross-functional strategic thinking" are proposed, it is important to consider whether they are as parsimonious as extant models, whether they have a basis in the evolution, biology or physiology of the central nervous system, and whether they have been empirically vetted against extant constructs using appropriate quantitative methods.…”

Differential epidemiology: IQ, neuroticism, and chronic disease by the 50 U.S. states

“…Both national and U.S. state IQs predict many of the things that individual IQ scores do, including socio-economic status (Pesta, McDaniel, & Bertsch, 2010), education (Lynn & Meisenberg, 2010), and crime (Pesta et al, 2010). Particularly relevant are recent studies showing links between aggregate IQ and epidemiologic outcomes (e.g., global state health: Pesta et al, 2010; life expectancy, mortality and fertility rates: Reeve, 2009; positive and negative health indicators: Reeve & Basalik, 2010).…”

Intelligence, human capital and HIV/AIDS: Fresh exploration

“…Barber (2005) has linked it to the example low birth weight; Lynn and Vanhanen (2006) to undernourishment and Lynn and Meisenberg (2012) to malnourishment. Many studies have also assessed the relationship with: (i) infant mortality (Barber, 2005;Lynn & Vanhanen, 2006 ;Kanazawa, 2006;Templer, 2008 ;Rushton & Templer, 2009;Reeve, 2009);(ii) maternal mortality (Lynn & Vanhanen, 2006 ;Reeve, 2009), la life expectancy (Lynn & Vanhanen, 2006 ;Kanazawa, 2006 ;Lynn et al, 2007;Ram, 2007 ;Templer, 2008;Rushton & Templer, 2009;Reeve, 2009) and (iii) HIV/AIDS 1 (Templer, 2008 ;Rindermann & Meisenberg, 2009;Rindermann et al, 2009;Rushton & Templer, 2009;Reeve, 2009). …”

“…It is interesting to note that, in the strand closest to the present study, HIV/AIDS is measured in terms of the percentage of infected individuals. As far as we have reviewed, Reeve (2009) As concerns human capital, economists have traditionally abundantly measured this economic indicator quantitatively and scantily with qualitative measurements of education (e.g Lutz, 2009). Traditional indicators in growth regressions include: average years of schooling, life expectancy of the school, secondary and tertiary enrolment and lifelong learning (Barro, 1991;Benhabib & Spiegel, 1994;Barro & Lee, 1993, 2001Caselli et al, 1996;Mankiw et al, 1992;Levine & Renelt, 1992;Sala-i-Martin et al , 2004;Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2015, 2016.…”

“…From a technical perspective, the plethora of studies on the relationship we examine have been authored by psychologists who recourse to simple correlations and path analysis (Templer, 2008 ;Rindermann & Meisenberg, 2009 ;Rindermann et al, 2009 ;Rushton & Templer, 2009 ;Reeve, 2009 Consistent with Kodila-Tedika and Asongu (2015), the data on intelligence is from Meisenberg and Lynn (2011): previous versions of this dataset can be found in Lynn andVanhanen (2002, 2006). This dataset is a compilation of hundreds of average national IQ tests observed over the 20 th and the 21 st centuries using best practice methods.…”