Spearman's law of diminishing returns and the DAS-II: Do g effects on subtest scores depend on the level of g?

School Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 275-289

  Reynolds, Matthew R ^a   Hajovsky, Danny B ^a   Niileksela, Christopher R ^a   Keith, Timothy Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential ability scales; Factor mixture modeling; Intelligence; Spearman's law of diminishing returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875339211     PISSN: 10453830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026190     Document Type: Article

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