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Measures of performance on concrete and formal operations from 39 college students were inter-correlated with measures of fluid and verbal intelligence and of interest in physical science. Performance on concrete and formal operations correlated significantly with interest in physical science but did not correlate significantly with either of the measures of intelligence.
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Diamond et al. (1977) studied this question.
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