The Danish Draft Board's intelligence test, Børge Priens Prøve: Psychometric properties and research applications through 50 years

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 633-638

  Teasdale, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological factors; Flynn Effect; Intelligence; Social factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DENMARK; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70450240836     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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