Jensen effects and African/Coloured/Indian/White differences on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices in South Africa

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1279-1284

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

g factor; IQ scores; Race differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036887926     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00012-0     Document Type: Article

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