Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns" in samples of Dutch and immigrant children and adults

Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 437-447

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a   Hartmann, Peter ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dutch and immigrants; g; Intelligence; Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747761919     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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