Source | Sample | GMA measure | Correlation |
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Willerman, Schultz, Rutledge and Bigler (1991) | 20 European-American male university students with mean age = 18 years | WAIS-R | 0.51 |
Willerman et al. (1991) | 20 European-American female university students with mean age = 18 years | WAIS-R | 0.33 |
Andreasen et al. (1993) | 37 European-American males aged 18–75 years | WAIS-R | 0.40 |
Andreasen et al. (1993) | 30 European-American females aged 18–75 years | WAIS-R | 0.44 |
Raz et al. (1993) | 29 European-Americans (17 men, 12 women) with mean age = 43.8 years (SD = 21.5) | CFIT | 0.43 |
Egan et al. (1994; corrected by Egan, Wickett, & Vernon, 1995) | 40 British military (unreported sex and race breakdown) with mean age = 23 (SD = 5), corrected for height, weight, and restricted range | WAIS-R | 0.48 |
Castellanos et al. (1994) | 46 children aged 5–19 years of unknown background | WISC-R subscales | 0.33 |
Harvey, Persaud, Ron, Baker, and Murray (1994) | 34 healthy male and female British hospital staff and locals (62% Caucasian; 38% Afro-Caribbean) used as control group | NART | 0.69 |
Jones et al. (1994) | 67 healthy male and female British, aged 16–60 years, some Afro-Caribbean, used as a community control group | NAT or verbal subtest of the WAIS | 0.30 |
Wickett et al. (1994) | 40 White Canadian women aged 20–30 years; height and weight partialed out and corrected for restriction of range | MAB | 0.40 |
Kareken et al. (1995) | 68 Caucasian and non-Caucasian adults of both sexes aged 18–45 years | Average of various subtests | 0.25 |
Reiss, Abrams, Singer, Ross, and Denckla (1996) | 12 boys, mainly White, aged 5–17 years | WISC-R | 0.52 |
Reiss et al. (1996) | 57 girls, mainly White, aged 5–17 years | WISC-R | 0.37 |
Flashman, Andreasen, Flaum, and Swayze (1998) | 90 healthy normal volunteer controls (47% female) with mean age = 27 years (SD = 10) | WAIS-R | 0.25 |
Tramo et al. (1998) | 20 individuals (10 pairs of identical twins) aged 24–43 years; we use their total cortical surface area as the estimate of brain size | WAIS-R | 0.20 |
Gur et al. (1999) | 40 men with a mean age = 26 years (SD = 5.5) | Various | 0.40 |
Gur et al. (1999) | 40 women with a mean age = 26 years (SD = 5.5) | Various | 0.39 |
Tan et al. (1999) | 54 female university students in Turkey, aged 18–26 years | CFIT | 0.62 |
Tan et al. (1999) | 49 male university students in Turkey, aged 18–26 years | CFIT | 0.28 |
Wickett et al. (2000) | 68 individuals (34 pairs of brothers) aged 20–35 years | g, from MAB and other tests | 0.38 |
Pennington et al. (2000) | 96 individuals (48 pairs of MZ and DZ twins), mean age = 17 years (SD = 4.1) | WISC-R and WAIS-R | 0.42 |
Pennington et al. (2000) | 36 individuals (18 pairs of MZ and DZ twins), mean age = 19 years (SD = 3.7) | WISC-R and WAIS-R | 0.31 |
Schoenemann, Budinger, Sarich, and Wang (2000) | 72 individuals (36 pairs of sisters) aged 18–43 years | g, from 11 diverse cognitive tasks including Raven's Matrices with corrections for age | 0.45 |
Aylward et al. (2002) | 83 White men and women aged 8–46 years used as healthy controls | Unspecified IQ test | 0.04 |
MacLullich et al. (2002) | 97 healthy men aged 68 years (SD = 1.3) | g, from various tests including NART and Raven's Matrices | 0.42 |
Ivanovic et al. (2004) | 47 male 18-year-old high school students in Chile selected from the richest and poorest counties | WAIS-R | 0.55 |
Ivanovic et al. (2004) | 49 female 18-year-old high school students in Chile selected from the richest and poorest counties | WAIS-R | 0.37 |
Deary et al. (2007) | 48 male 71- to 76-year-olds resident in Scotland | NART | 0.56 |
Number of samples: 28 | |||
Total N: 1,389 | |||
Unweighted mean r = 0.40 | |||
N-weighted mean r = 0.38 |
Note. CFIT, Culture-Free Intelligence Test; MAB, Multidimensional Aptitude Battery; MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging; NART, New Adult Reading Test; PMAT, Primary Mental Abilities Test; WAIS-R, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised; WISC, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.