A short history of g: Psychometrics' most enduring and controversial construct

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-114

  Buckhalt, Joseph A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charles Edward Spearman; g psychometrics; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035780048     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1041-6080(02)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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