Eagle is a human resources coordinator for a large firm dealing with a range of products. She needs to immediately hire an employee high in reasoning ability, but the only tests she has available test for quantitative and verbal abilities. What can she do when she administers the test to Pablo, and he scores very well on both of them?
A) ignore the results because all three areas are completely unrelated
B) pass up Pablo because verbal ability is inverse to reasoning ability
C) calculate Pablo's likely reasoning ability score as 60 percent of his verbal score
D) repeat the test because it is impossible to score high on both math and verbal ability
E) hire Pablo because people tend to score similarly across all types of cognitive ability

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Cognitive ability refers to capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving. Cognitive abilities are very relevant in jobs involving decision making and problem solving. Maybe you think of yourself as being smart in verbal abilities but not as smart in quantitative abilities. In fact, most people score more similarly across their cognitive abilities than they realize. People who are higher than average on verbal abilities also tend to be higher than average on reasoning, quantitative, spatial, and perceptual abilities, and people who are lower than average on verbal abilities tend to be lower than average on the other abilities.

Eagle Is a Human Resources Coordinator for a Large Firm