Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns and national ability

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 406-410

  Coyle, Thomas R ^a   Rindermann, Heiner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

General intelligence (g); Lynn Vanhanen; National G factor; PIRLS; PISA; SLODR; TIMSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878191970     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.023     Document Type: Article

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