For some time I have been collecting P.S.I.A. scores (Personality Scales for Intelligent Adults) and other personal details of testees. It will take more time to be able to report actual correlations of those with I.Q. with significance, but at this moment it is already possible to give a ranking of the top positive and negative correlates.
Four tests have received enough P.S.I.A. and personal data to reach some significance: Genius Association Test, Qoymans Multiple-Choice #3, Q.M.C. #4 and Space, Time and Hyperspace. For each I gave its top 5 positive correlates points from 5 to 1, and the same for its top 5 negative correlates. I summed the points over the four tests for each correlate, ending up with two lists of correlates (one for the positive and one for the negative correlates). Then I balanced out a few correlates that appeared on both lists; for instance, if a correlate had 5 points on the positive list and 1 point on the negative list, it ended up with 4 points on the positive list. These table contains the result.
| The top positive correlates with high-range I.Q. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Correlate | Points |
| 1.5 | P.S.I.A. Ethics | 11 |
| 1.5 | P.S.I.A. System | 11 |
| 3 | P.S.I.A. True | 9 |
| 4 | Educational level | 7 |
| 5.5 | P.S.I.A. Orderly | 5 |
| 5.5 | P.S.I.A. Rational | 5 |
| 7 | P.S.I.A. Cold | 3 |
| 8 | Father's educational level | 2 |
| The top negative correlates with high-range I.Q. | ||
| Rank | Correlate | Points |
| 1 | Psychiatric disorders (own) | 11 |
| 2 | P.S.I.A. Just | 8 |
| 3.5 | P.S.I.A. Antisocial | 7 |
| 3.5 | P.S.I.A. Neurotic | 7 |
| 5 | P.S.I.A. Extreme | 5 |
| 6 | Psychiatric disorders (in parents and siblings) | 4 |
| 8 | Mother's educational level | 3 |
| 8 | P.S.I.A. Introverted | 3 |
| 8 | P.S.I.A. Cruel | 3 |
| 9 | Birth year | 1 |
Some comments: the two correlates already found in prior reports (Educational level for positive and disorders for negative) are confirmed here. Remarkable is the P.S.I.A. Deviance factor does not show up as a top (negative) correlate. The P.S.I.A. scales and factors that do show up are telling with regard to the nature of high-range I.Q.
Still puzzling is the negative correlation of mother's educational level.