A review of the worst performance rule: Evidence, theory, and alternative hypotheses

By Thomas R. Coyle. 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Use of Response Time for Measuring Cognitive Ability (2016, background): “There already may be a hint of this in the “worst performance rule (WPR)” [123], which is based on a finding that the average response time from one’s slowest responses (or, say, the 90th percentile of response times for an individual) is more highly correlated with cognitive ability than is one’s m”
Moving Beyond the Mean in Studies of Mental Chronometry (2011, background): “The robust relationship between t and working memory is intriguing in light of the worst-performance rule developed in the intelligence literature (e.g., Coyle, 2003).”
Defining features versus incidental correlates of Type 1 and Type 2 processing (2012, background): “Such an interpretation is suggested by the evidence in favor of the so-called worst performance rule—that the slowest trials on a reaction time task correlate more strongly with intelligence than does the mean reaction time or the fastest reaction time trials (Coyle 2003).”
Lapses in sustained attention and their relation to executive control and fluid abilities: An individual differences investigation (2010, background): “In fact, work in intelligence has suggested that the slowest RTs typically correlate higher with measures of intelligence than the fastest RTs leading to a worst performance rule (see Coyle, 2003 for a review).”
Methodological and empirical developments for the Ratcliff diffusion model of response times and accuracy (2009, background): “The origin of the WPR is subject to debate (see Coyle, 2003, for a review).”
Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016, background): “Of importance, Coyle (2003a) repeated a study with an additional group from the top 1 percentile of the intelligence distribution and found no evidence of the worst performance rule in this high-ability group.”