Abstract

The participants were recruited from the social media platforms and presented a mean age of 45 years, with a SD of 12.6, and therewith reported their corresponding educational levels and essential occupational orientations; they were subjected accordingly to the JMLQ adaptive, recruitment test instrument. Analysis of their responses indicated that the participants’ performances were subject to the influence of level of education and occupational complexity/specialization such that the highest levels of education and occupational complexity were reflected, firstly, at the highest Basic JMLQ scales, consisting of Complex, Mathematical, Numerical, and Logical, mean values, and secondly, the highest levels of proportion correct answers performance was obtained at five years university or more compared to post-secondary education which was higher than upper secondary school, and finally thirdly, the high category of occupation, i.e. most specialized, based upon hypothesized JMLQ score produced the highest mean values for General, Speed and Speed2 categories followed by the medium and low categories, respectively. In consensus, the present findings have implied that the highest academic levels and greatest level of occupational specializations produced the paramount performance of logical reasoning and cognitive finesse. Accordingly, the JMLQ instrument apportions sophistication and suitability for both the applications and conceptualizations of logical-cognitive reasoning and/or intellectual performance assessment.