Question

Eagle is a human resources coordinator for a large firm dealing with a range of products. She needs to immediately hire an employee high in reasoning ability, but the only tests she has available test for quantitative and verbal abilities. What can she do when she administers the test to Pablo, and he scores very well on both of them?

Answer 1

Answer:

hire Pablo because people tend to score similarly across all types of cognitive ability

Explanation:

Cognitive ability testing are used by human resources personell to test for general intelligence in prospective employees.

They are used to test how a person can think logically and solve problems.

Verbal, numerical, spatial, and logical questions are used to grade prospective employees.

In the given scenario Eagle needs to immediately hire an employee high in reasoning ability, but the only tests she has available test for quantitative and verbal abilities.

If the employee passes the quantitative and verbal tests she should hire him because people with high reasoning ability tend to score high on all cognitive tests.

There is a very good chance he will score well on other cognitive tests.