Objective evidence of rising population ability: A detailed examination of longitudinal chess data

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 347-363

  Howard, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age effect; Chess; Flynn effect; IQ; Population intelligence; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144233459     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.04.013     Document Type: Article

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