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Sex Differences on the WAIS-III in Taiwan and the United States

Hsin-Yi Chen and Richard Lynn

10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.9

Published: 2020/12/01

Abstract

Sex differences are reported in the standardization samples of the WAIS-III in Taiwan and the United States. In Taiwan, men obtained a significantly higher Full Scale IQ than women of 4.35 IQ points and in the United States men obtained a significantly higher Full Scale IQ than women of 2.78 IQ points. The sex differences on the 14 subtests are generally similar with a correlation between the two of .65. In the Taiwan sample there were no conistent sex differences in variability.

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