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An alternative interpretation of climate data: Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg*
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Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. robert.sternberg@cornell.edu
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Abstract

The CLASH model proposed in the target article is plausible but less than parsimonious. I suggest that statistical analysis probably would find slower life history strategy, greater focus on the future, and greater self-control to be highly correlated and perhaps unifactorial, because they are all manifestations of a single underlying variable, namely, intelligence. I suggest how intelligence as a state variable plausibly could explain the differences observed by the authors.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e96
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