Group differences in the heritability of items and test scores

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1667, 2009, Pages 2675-2683

  Wicherts, Jelte M ^a   Johnson, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour genetics; Heritability; Intelligence; Nature versus nurture; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; MODELING; PSYCHOLOGY; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS;

EID: 67650462661     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0238     Document Type: Article

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