Performance on Raven's advanced progressive matrices by African, East Indian, and White engineering students in South Africa

Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-137

  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

Africa; g loadings; Intelligence; Jensen effects; University students

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDIAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037349977     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00140-X     Document Type: Article

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