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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE OF 5- TO 11-YEAR-OLDS ON THE COLOURED PROGRESSIVE MATRICES IN EGYPT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2018

Khaled Elsayed Ziada
Affiliation:
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Menoufia University, Egypt
Hanaa Abdelazim Mohamed Metwaly
Affiliation:
Kafr El-sheikh University, Kafr El-sheikh, Egypt
Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet*
Affiliation:
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Helen Cheng
Affiliation:
University College London, UK
Richard Lynn
Affiliation:
University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK
*
1Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Summary

This study was based on data for a sample of 1756 Egyptian primary school children (863 boys and 893 girls) aged 5–11 years assessed for intelligence with Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM). The results showed that boys obtained a slightly higher IQ than girls and had greater variance.

Type
Short Report
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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