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Assessment name:  International Cognitive Ability Resource Sample Test (ICAR)

Scale overview: The International Cognitive Ability Resource Sample Test (ICAR-16) is a 16-item assessment of cognitive ability in four domains.

Authors: David Condon and William Revelle

 

Response Type: Items are rated on a scale of agreement from

Scale items

International Cognitive Ability Resource scale items are protected but available to registered users. The 16-items version includes 4-items per cognitive domain. Following are the 4 domains.

LN – Letter number Series

MR – Matrix Reasoning

VR – Verbal Reasoning

R3D – three-dimensional reasoning

Psychometric properties

Merz et al. (2022) reported a normal distribution of International Cognitive Ability Resource scale scores and positive correlations with level of education, income, and a self-estimate of intelligence. There were no gender differences on the total score.

Lace and Evans (2021) found an inverse correlation between spirituality and intelligence using the ASPIRES-SF and the ICARS-16 (r = -0.22 for ASPIRES-SF-R and -0.11 for ASPIRES-SF-S).

Lace and Evans (2021) also reported mean IQ scores using ICAR-16 for religious and nonreligious adults. Those who identified as only religious obtained the lowest intelligence scores. The total ICAR-16 intelligence scores are reported by category identity below. See Table 2 in their article for score details.

Religious = 92.99

Spiritual = 99.37

Religious & Spiritual = 98.86

Not religious or spiritual = 103.73

The effect size comparing Religious and Not religious = .73

 Other data may be found in Condon and Revelle (2014), Revelle et al. (2020), and Dworak et al. (2021).

                       

Availability: The ICAR is available online at The Project - International Cognitive Ability Resource - The ICAR Project (icar-project.com)

References for the scale

Condon, D. M., & Revelle, W. (2014). The international cognitive ability resource: Development and ini[1]tial validation of a public-domain measure. Intelligence, 43, 52–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell. 2014.01.004

Dworak, E. M., Revelle, W., Doebler, P., & Condon, D. M. (2021). Using the International Cognitive Ability Resources as an open source tool to explore individual differences in cognitive ability. Peresonality and Individual Differences, 169(1), 109906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109906

 

Lace, John W., and Luke N. Evans. 2022. “The Relationship between Religiousness/Spirituality and Psychometric Intelligence in the United States.” Journal of Religion and Health 61 (6): 4516–34. doi:10.1007/s10943-021-01394-4.

Merz, Z. C., Lace, J. W., & Eisenstein, A. M. (2020). Examining broad intellectual abilities obtained within an MTurk internet sample. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi. org/10.1007/s12144-020-00741-0

Revelle, W., Dworak, E. M., & Condon, D. (2020). Cognitive ability in everyday life: The utility of open[1]source measures. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(4), 358–363. https://doi.org/10. 1177/0963721420922178

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