Spearman's hypothesis tested comparing young Libyan with European children on the items of the standard progressive matrices
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2017Source
Mankind QuarterlyVolume
57Issue
3Pages
456-466Google Scholar check
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Spearman's hypothesis tested at the level of items states that differences between ethnic groups on the items of an IQ test are a function of the g loadings of these items, such that there are small differences between groups on items with low g loadings and large differences between groups on items with high g loadings, and it has been confirmed in a limited number of studies. In this paper we test Spearman's hypothesis, comparing a group of young Libyan children (N = 900) with other groups of young children from Denmark, Cyprus, and Croatia (total N = 1,847). The analyses were carried out on four comparisons between the Libyan children and the other children. Spearman's hypothesis was strongly confirmed with a mean weighted r of .67.