A note on a new study of intelligence in Egypt
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Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet1, Richard Lynn
11 King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Three studies of intelligence in Egypt published between 1957 and 1989 and based on small samples gave British IQs between 77 and 83. The present paper reports the results of a recent study based on a much larger sample in order to examine how far the results of the older studies can be replicated. The Coloured Progressive Matrices was standardized in Egypt in 2011-2013 on a sample of 11,284 children aged 5.6 to 10.5 years. The sample obtained a British IQ of 84.2 and provides a satisfactory replication of the earlier studies.
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