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% Subject Description
59.50 Near Vision The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
56.25 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 that there is a problem.
56.25 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).
53.00 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.
53.00 Oral Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
53.00 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).
53.00 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.
53.00 Deductive Reasoning The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
50.00 Written Comprehension The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
50.00 Selective Attention The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
50.00 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.
50.00 Oral Comprehension The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
50.00 Inductive Reasoning The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
50.00 Category Flexibility The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
50.00 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.
50.00 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.
50.00 Speech Recognition The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.



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