Second-order ability structure revealed in rights and wrongs scores.

Using 14 ability testa to measure 12 primary factors in a sample of 106 adult males, 2nd-order factorial structures were determined separately for both rights scores and wrongs scores. In both analyses the results agreed well with previous analyses in showing intellective functions interpreted as fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, general visualization, and general fluency. Other factors were interpreted tentatively. The correlations between rights scores and wrongs scores for the same test were found to range from +.51 to —.98, with most being in a range indicating about 25% of variance in common for the 2 kinds of scores. The results were interpreted as indicating that whereas the same basic functions were evidenced by the interrelationships among the 2 kinds of scores, decisions about the level of function of a particular individual could be quite disparate for rights as compared with wrongs scores.