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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1001678
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0160-2896
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Dysgenic Fertility, Intelligence and Family Size in Libya
Al-Shahomee, Alsedig Abdalgadr; Lynn, Richard; Abdalla, Saleh El-ghmary
Intelligence, v41 n1 p67-69 Jan-Feb 2013
The Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) was administered to a sample of 592 16 year old school students in Libya. There was a small negative correlation of -0.14 between SPM scores and the number of siblings, indicating only marginal dysgenic fertility. Supplementary material giving the data is given online. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Intelligence, Foreign Countries, Family Size, Siblings, Correlation, Adolescents, Scores
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Libya
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Raven Progressive Matrices
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