Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns" and the role of test reliability investigated in a large sample of Danish military draftees

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1193-1203

  Hartmann, Peter ^a   Teasdale, Thomas W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 27644497227     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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