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. 2022 May 5;17(5):e0266326. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266326

Table 2. Abilities estimates.

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ONET Item Description Secondary category Overall category Coefficient
Arm-Hand Steadiness The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. Fine manipulative abilities Psychomotor abilities -3.587
Auditory Attention The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. Auditory and speech abilities Sensory Abilities 0.000
Category Flexibility The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities -2.381
Control Precision The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. Control Movement Abilities Psychomotor Abilities 1.663
Deductive Reasoning The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities -4.904
Depth Perception The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. Visual Abilities Sensory Abilities 0.558
Dynamic Flexibility The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. Flexibility, Balance and Coordination Physical Abilities 2.784
Dynamic Strength The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. Physical Strength Physical Abilities -0.256
{2,3Explosive Strength The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. Physical Strength Physical Abilities 0.555
Extent Flexibility The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. Flexibility, balance and coordination Physical Abilities -2.347
Far Vision The ability to see details at a distance. Visual Abilities Sensory Abilities -2.219
Finger Dexterity The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. Fine manipulative abilities Psychomotor abilities 2.169
Flexibility of Closure The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. Perceptual Abilities Cognitive abilities 0.000
Fluency of ideas The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). Ideas generation and reasoning abilities Cognitive abilities -2.830
Glare sensitivity The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. Visual abilities Sensory abilities -3.635
Gross Body Co-ordination The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. Flexibility, Balance and Coordination Physical Abilities 0.266
Gross Body Equilibrium The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. Flexibility, Balance and Coordination Physical Abilities 0.000
Hearing Sensitivity The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. Auditory and Speech abilities Sensory Abilities -1.139
Inductive Reasoning The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Information Ordering The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Manual Dexterity The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. Fine Manipulative Abilities Psychomotor Abilities 0.000
Math Reasoning The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. Quantitative Abilities Cognitive Abilities 1.253
Memorization Abilities related to the recall of available information. Quantitative Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Multi Limb Co-ordination The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. Control movement abilities Psychomotor Abilities 1.604
Near Vision The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). Near Vision Visual Abilities 0.000
Night Vision The ability to see under low light conditions. Near Vision Visual Abilities 3.025
Number Facility The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. Quantitative Abilities Cognitive Abilities -1.817
Oral Comprehension The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Verbal Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Oral Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. Verbal Abilities Cognitive Abilities 4.378
Originality The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. Idea generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Perceptual Speed The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. Perceptual Abilities Cognitive Abilities -4.204
Perceptual Vision The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one’s side when the eyes are looking ahead. Visual Abilities Sensory Abilities 0.713
Problem Sensitivity The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. Idea generation and Reasoning Abilities Cognitive Abilities 2.190
Rate Control The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. Control Movement Abilities Psychomotor Abilities 3.112
Reaction Time The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. Reaction Time and Speed Abilities Psychomotor Abilities 2.509
Response Orientation The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. Control Movement Abilities Psychomotor Abilities -4.984
Selective Attention The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. Attentiveness Cognitive Abilities -0.963
Sound Localisation The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. Auditory and Speech Abilities Sensory Abilities -1.685
Spatial Orientation The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. Spatial Abilities Cognitive Abilities 1.051
Speech Clarity The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. Auditory and Speech Abilities Sensory Abilities 0.000
Speech Recognition The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. Auditory and Speech Abilities Sensory Abilities -2.099
Speed of Closure The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. Perceptual Abilities Cognitive Abilities 5.164
Speed of Limb Movement The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. Reaction Time and Speed Abilities Psychomotor Abilities -1.118
Stamina The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. Endurance Physical Abilities 0.557
Static Strength The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. Physical Strength Abilities Physical Abilities 0.679
Time Sharing The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). Attentiveness Cognitive Abilities 2.796
Trunk Strength The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without ’giving out’ or fatiguing. Physical Strength Abilities Physical Abilities 0.000
Visual Color Discrimination The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. Visual Abilities Sensory Abilities 4.322
Visualisation The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. Spatial Abilities Cognitive Abilities -0.752
Wrist-Finger Speed The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Reaction Time and Speed Abilities Psychomotor Abilities -1.251
Written Comprehension The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. Verbal Abilities Cognitive Abilities 0.000
Written Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. Verbal Abilities Cognitive Abilities -0.295
R Squared = 0.97 2701297