The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 2002 for work on judgment and decisionmaking tasks that are the operational measures of rational thought in cognitive science. Because assessments of intelligence (and similar tests of cognitive ability) are taken to be the quintessence of good thinking, it might be thought that such measures would serve as proxies for the assessment of rational thought. It is important to understand why such an assumption would be misplaced. It is often not recognized that rationality and intelligence (as traditionally defined) are two different things conceptually and empirically. Distinguishing between rationality and intelligence helps explain how people can be, at the same time, intelligent and irrational. Thus, individual differences in the cognitive skills that underlie rational thinking must be studied in their own right because intelligence tests do not explicitly assess rational thinking. In this article, I describe how my research group has worked to develop the first prototype of a comprehensive test of rational thought (the Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking).
I’ve tried to find a complete version of the test online, and haven’t succeeded in finding one. But there are a decent quantity of sample questions, covering all the question types, in the appendix to his book “The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking”.
It seems that the test is based on the CART (The Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking) rationality inventory.
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Where can I take “The Comprehensive Assessment of Rational
Thinking” (CART)? This article http://www.keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_files/Stanovich_EdPsy_2016.pdf
talks about it, where is the actual assessment?
I’ve tried to find a complete version of the test online, and haven’t succeeded in finding one. But there are a decent quantity of sample questions, covering all the question types, in the appendix to his book “The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking”.