The Flynn effect, group differences, and g loadings

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 224-228

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flynn effect; G Loadings; G Score; Group differences; Intelligence; IQ tests; Method of correlated vectors; Secular score gains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878145466     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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