Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success
[full text read at source via the Europe PMC XML; it carries no Materials and Methods section, which was not read anywhere, and the published correction could not be retrieved] Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). 'Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(47), 23499-23504. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910510116. THE STRONGEST SINGLE ITEM IN THE PRO-GRIT CASE AND ALSO THE MOST DEFLATIONARY, AND IT IS HERS. 'we capitalized on a full decade of prospective, longitudinal data from n = 11,258 cadets entering training at the US Military Academy at West Point', 9 cohorts, the sample '50 times larger than the average sample of studies published in high-impact psychology journals'. Preregistered on AsPredicted with data and web appendix on the Open Science Framework; the significance threshold tightened to a two-tailed .01 for five outcomes; models control for gender, race, age and cohort year. Completing Beast Barracks: 'cadets 1 SD higher than their peers in grit had 54% greater odds of completing Beast Barracks training (OR = 1.54) ... In contrast, cognitive ability (OR = 1.06, P = 0.33) and physical ability (OR = 1.08, P = 0.14) did not reliably predict retention during this period.' Grades: cognitive ability beta 0.41 against grit 0.07 for academic grades, physical ability 0.36 against grit 0.06 for physical grades. Concave curvilinear effects, with grit beyond the 99th percentile predicting
[full text read at source via the Europe PMC XML; it carries no Materials and Methods section, which was not read anywhere, and the published correction could not be retrieved] Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). 'Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(47), 23499-23504. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910510116. THE STRONGEST SINGLE ITEM IN THE PRO-GRIT CASE AND ALSO THE MOST DEFLATIONARY, AND IT IS HERS. 'we capitalized on a full decade of prospective, longitudinal data from n = 11,258 cadets entering training at the US Military Academy at West Point', 9 cohorts, the sample '50 times larger than the average sample of studies published in high-impact psychology journals'. Preregistered on AsPredicted with data and web appendix on the Open Science Framework; the significance threshold tightened to a two-tailed .01 for five outcomes; models control for gender, race, age and cohort year. Completing Beast Barracks: 'cadets 1 SD higher than their peers in grit had 54% greater odds of completing Beast Barracks training (OR = 1.54) ... In contrast, cognitive ability (OR = 1.06, P = 0.33) and physical ability (OR = 1.08, P = 0.14) did not reliably predict retention during this period.' Grades: cognitive ability beta 0.41 against grit 0.07 for academic grades, physical ability 0.36 against grit 0.06 for physical grades. Concave curvilinear effects, with grit beyond the 99th percentile predicting
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Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). 'Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(47), 23499-23504. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910510116.