A test of Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns" in two large samples of Danish military draftees

Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 499-508

  Hartmann, Peter ^a   Teasdale, Thomas W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive test; g saturation; Law of Diminishing Returns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENMARK; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLDIER; VARIANCE;

EID: 4444370237     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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