Inferring Cognitive Abilities from Response Times to Web-Administered Survey Items in a Population-Representative Sample.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring of cognitive abilities in large-scale survey research is receiving increasing attention. Conventional cognitive testing, however, is often impractical on a population level highlighting the need for alternative means of cognitive assessment. We evaluated whether response times (RTs) to online survey items could be useful to infer cognitive abilities. We analyzed >5 million survey item RTs from >6000 individuals administered over 6.5 years in an internet panel together with cognitive tests (numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, task switching/inhibitory control). We derived measures of mean RT and intraindividual RT variability from a multilevel location-scale model as well as an expanded version that separated intraindividual RT variability into systematic RT adjustments (varia

SUBMITTER: Junghaenel DU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9864969 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature