Jensen effects among African, Indian, and White engineering students in South Africa on Raven's standard progressive matrices

Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 409-423

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Skuy, Mervyn ^b   Fridjhon, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African IQ; Intelligence tests; Race differences; Raven's progressive matrices; Scores; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENGINEERING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDIAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0036742055     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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