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
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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