Does the professional work role require greater intelligence of job incumbents than the semiprofessional or nonprofessional work roles? This study reports that consistent with the popular perspective (1) professions require more intelligence, verbal and numerical ability of job incumbents than semiprofessions and nonprofessions for satisfactory performance of the work role and (2) semiprofessions require more intelligence and verbal ability of workers than nonprofessions.
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