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Demographic characteristics and IQ among adults: Analysis of the WAIS—R standardization sample as a function of the stratification variables.

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In this article, the authors analyzed data from the standardization sample of the 1981 Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) to determine the relationships of WAISR IQs to the demographic variables upon which the sample was stratified.
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This article is published in Journal of School Psychology.The article was published on 1987-12-01. It has received 123 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale & Intelligence quotient.

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Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns.

TL;DR: Neisser as mentioned in this paper (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina
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Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence that intelligence has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essentially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing, and the more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well.
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Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health?

TL;DR: Various bodies of evidence are concatenated to demonstrate that differences in general intelligence (g) may be that fundamental cause of health inequalities.
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Reading level attenuates differences in neuropsychological test performance between African American and White elders.

TL;DR: It is suggested that years of education is an inadequate measure of the educational experience among multicultural elders, and that adjusting for quality of education may improve the specificity of certain neuropsychological measures.
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Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences

Roger E. Kirk
TL;DR: This chapter discusses research strategies and the Control of Nuisance Variables, as well as randomly Randomized Factorial Design with Three or More Treatments and Randomized Block Factorial design, and Confounded Factorial Designs: Designs with Group-Interaction Confounding.
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Bias in Mental Testing

TL;DR: Jensen as discussed by the authors argued that standardized tests are not biased against English-speaking minority groups and described the uses of such tests in education and employment, and proposed methods for assessing bias in commonly used I.Q., aptitude, and achievement tests.
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The Measurement and Appraisal of Adult Intelligence

TL;DR: Wechsler scales have been used extensively for the evaluation of mental abilities in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the clinical appraisal of adult intelligence through the normal range.