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CORRELATIONS BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE, HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE AND HEIGHT: EVIDENCE FROM TWO SAMPLES IN SAUDI ARABIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2016

Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet ,
Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa ,
Amira Mahmood Mohsen Dwieb ,
Abdelkader Mohamed Abdelkader Elsayed ,
Afra Sulman Mohammed Sulman ,
Helen Cheng  and
Richard Lynn
Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet*
Affiliation:
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa
Affiliation:
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Amira Mahmood Mohsen Dwieb
Affiliation:
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abdelkader Mohamed Abdelkader Elsayed
Affiliation:
Dhofar University, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
Afra Sulman Mohammed Sulman
Affiliation:
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Helen Cheng
Affiliation:
University College London, UK
Richard Lynn
Affiliation:
University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK
*
1 Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Summary

This study was based on two independent studies which in total consisted of 1812 school pupils aged 6–12 years in Saudi Arabia. Study I consisted of 1591 school pupils (609 boys and 982 girls) attending state schools, and Study II consisted of 211 boys with learning disabilities. Intelligence (measured using the Standard Progressive Matrices Plus for Study I and the Standard Progressive Matrices for Study II), head size and height were measured for the two samples. The results showed that intelligence was statistically significantly correlated with head circumference (r=0.350, p<0.001 for Study I and r=0.168, p<0.05 for Study II) and height (r=0.271, p<0.001 for Study I and r=0.178, p<0.05 for Study II).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , March 2017 , pp. 276 - 280
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2016 

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