The measurement of individual differences in cognitive ability has a long and important history in psychology, but it has been impeded by the proprietary nature of most assessment measures. With the development of validated open-source measures of ability (collected in the International Cognitive Ability Resource, or ICAR, available at ICAR-project.com), it is now possible for many researchers to assess ability in large surveys or small, lab-based studies without the expenses associated with proprietary measures. We review the history of ability measurement and discuss how the growing set of items included in ICAR allows ability assessments to be more generally available to all researchers.

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日常生活中的认知能力：开源措施的实用性

认知能力的个体差异的测量在心理学上有着悠久而重要的历史，但是大多数评估方法的专有性已阻碍了这种测量。随着经过验证的开放源代码能力测评方法的发展（收集在ICAR-project.com上的国际认知能力资源或ICAR中），许多研究人员现在可以通过大型调查或小型实验室研究来评估能力。基于基础的研究，而没有与专有措施相关的费用。我们回顾了能力测量的历史，并讨论了ICAR中包含的越来越多的项目如何使能力评估更广泛地适用于所有研究人员。