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I.Q. Scores and the Problem of Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. E. Gathercole*
Affiliation:
Professorial Unit, Rainhill Hospital, Rainhill, Nr. Liverpool
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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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