To summarise the previous findings it can be concluded that sex differences in intelligence between men and women cannot be generalised but have to be looked at from a perspective of different domains of intelligence. ... Consequently these findings raise questions about how these two sex differences came about and whether they occurred due to any environmental or heritability factors. ... Lynn (1988) proposed a theory of the effect of brain size and maturity rates on general intelligence to find answers to the questions as to why IQ scores differ among adults but are the same among teenagers...

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Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. You decide to include a group test of intelligence (based on the psychometric approach) but given the multicultural context in which you are working, you also a...

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