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The Problem Is in the Definition: g and Intelligence in I–O Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Phillip L. Ackerman*
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Margaret E. Beier
Affiliation:
Rice University
*
E-mail: phillip.ackerman@psych.gatech.edu, Address: School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 654 Cherry St., MC 0170, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2012 

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