Two failures of Spearman's hypothesis: The GATB in Holland and the JAT in South Africa
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- Authors
- Dolan, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Dolan, C
- ORCID
- Dolan, C
- Venue
- Intelligence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-04
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-173
- ISSN
- 0160-2896 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2139742568
- Semantic Scholar
- fde9537cfd819daff01e6bdede4a1db4e6a75f85
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 5.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Keywords
- Spearman's hypothesis, general intelligence, GATB, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, measurement invariance, Netherlands, South Africa
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