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Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; Carlson, Jerry S.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
In his comment on our literature review of data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven's Progressive Matrices, Lynn (this issue) criticized our selection of samples of primary and secondary school students. On the basis of the samples he deemed representative, Lynn concluded that the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans stands at 67…
Descriptors: Legislators, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries
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Herrington, V. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: In recent years, academic debate has (re)focused on the extent of the co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID) and criminality, although findings from prevalence studies examining this link have been inconsistent. In April 2004, a process for transferring responsibility for commissioning healthcare services in UK prisons to…
Descriptors: Incidence, Mental Retardation, Correctional Institutions, Intelligence Tests
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Dykiert, Dominika; Gale, Catharine R.; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2009
This study investigated the possibility that apparent sex differences in IQ are at least partly created by the degree of sample restriction from the baseline population. We used a nationally representative sample, the 1970 British Cohort Study. Sample sizes varied from 6518 to 11,389 between data-collection sweeps. Principal components analysis of…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Cognitive Tests, Intelligence Quotient, Factor Analysis