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Peer reviewedRushton, J. Philippe; Skuy, Mervyn; Fridjhon, Peter – Intelligence, 2002
Administered Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices to 342 young adult engineering students in South Africa (198 Africans; 86 Whites). Data confirm the magnitude of the African-White IQ gap and that the differences on various items are positively correlated with the "g" loading for those items. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Intelligence
Peer reviewedRushton, J. Philippe; Skuy, Mervyn; Fridjhon, Peter – Intelligence, 2003
Tested the hypothesis that the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices test has the same construct validity in African university students that it does in non-African university students. Differences in results for 294 engineering students in South Africa show that differences are not attributable to cultural peculiarities of the test, but are a…
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Engineering
