Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns in Normative Samples for the WISC-IV and WAIS-III

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 57-69

  Saklofske, Donald H ^a   Yang, Zhiming ^b   Zhu, Jianjun ^b   Austin, Elizabeth J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Psychological Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intelligence; psychometrics; Spearman's law; Wechsler tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449169998     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.29.2.57     Document Type: Article

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