New evidence for differences in fluid intelligence between north and south Italy and against school resources as an explanation for the north-south IQ differential

Intelligence

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 246-249

  Piffer, Davide ^a   Lynn, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IQ; Italy; North south difference; PISA creative problem solving test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905705117     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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