Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elementary cognitive task

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The result was Withdrawn by nominator with consensus to keep. This is proof that if you don't know the first thing about a subject, you should probably give it the benefit of the doubt. Just a simple mistake on my part. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 04:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Elementary cognitive task[edit]

Tagged as A1 (no context); speedy declined by Legalleft (talk · contribs) with reasoning "no, this is a needed topic". A search for sources turns up only ten hits, none of which look relevant; therefore, this seems to fail the acid test for neologisms. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 03:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment No idea where I got this figure of ten GHits from. Apparently I had it confused with another article I tagged around the same time. Thanks to Legalleft (talk · contribs) and Nick Connolly (talk · contribs) for addressing my concerns; I withdraw. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 04:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- This is a term of art in psychological research. Google search for returns 400 hits, predominately scholarly. [1]. Not a neologism. --Legalleft (talk) 03:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any proof that it's a widely used term, however, nor do I see anything which clearly gives it a definition. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 03:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do now. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 03:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I created the article precisely because it was a term that was occuring in discussion about IQ tests which had no Wikipedia article. ECTs are commonly refered to in the literature of IQ testing (eg search back copies of the journal Intelligence [[2]]). The term isn't a neologism as it has been in US for several decades. ghits of "elementary cognitive tasks" gives 355 hits including [[3]]. Go on be nice to it :) Nick Connolly (talk) 03:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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