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Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students' intelligence is merely average
2024-02-10
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<p>Background. According to a widespread belief, the average IQ of university students is 115 to 130 IQ points, that is, substantially higher than the average IQ of the general population (M = 100, SD =15). We traced the origin of this belief to obsolete intelligence data collected in 1940s and 1950s when university education was the privilege of a few. Examination of more recent IQ data indicate that IQ of univer...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78e8c6f9-0499-53e9-88c4-a224652d69c1
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/2munr