The impact of smart fractions, cognitive ability of politicians and average competence of peoples on social development

Talent Development and Excellence

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-25

  Rindermann, Heiner ^a   Sailer, Michael ^a   Thompson, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gifted portion; Growth; High ability fraction; Intelligence; Patent rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049094066     PISSN: 18690459     EISSN: 18692885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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