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. 2015 Mar 13;6:297. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00297

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of scores for all IQ subtests (standard scores unless otherwise stated).

South Africa
UK
Post hoc (F) Cohen’s d
M SD M SD
Similarities 8.12 1.40 14.22 3.04 437.69∗∗ 2.58
Vocabulary 8.92 2.02 14.56 2.66 462.65∗∗ 2.39
Information 10.19 3.21 11.75 2.72 32.57∗∗ 0.52
Comprehension 8.99 2.50 12.48 2.59 163.36∗∗ 1.37
Verbal Comprehension Index 94.81 10.25 120.12 14.84 311.68∗∗ 1.98
Block Design 8.67 2.61 10.66 2.87 44.29∗∗ 0.73
Picture Arrangement 8.33 2.82 10.08 2.26 43.486∗∗ 0.68
Matrix Reasoning 10.68 2.37 10.59 2.71 0.10 0.04
Picture Completion 8.05 2.11 10.57 3.13 67.93∗∗ 0.94
Perceptual Organization Index 94.28 10.94 103.09 14.69 40.57∗∗ 0.68
Digit Symbol-Coding 9.75 2.51 7.72 2.68 49.40∗∗ 0.78
Symbol Search 9.71 2.67 8.25 2.62 25.00∗∗ 0.55
Processing Speed Index 98.18 12.27 88.99 13.20 41.51∗∗ 0.72
Digit Span 9.35 2.26 9.50 2.94 0.20 0.06
Letter–Number Sequence 9.17 2.42 8.88 2.72 2.64 0.11
Arithmetic 8.66 2.53 9.58 3.14 0.17 0.32
Working Memory Index 93.83 11.40 95.45 14.09 <1.00 0.13
Verbal IQ 93.63 9.96 112.14 13.92 1.53
Performance IQ 93.56 10.05 98.89 13.94 0.44
Full Scale IQ Index 93.27 8.94 106.95 12.90 1.23

Scale scores (M = 10, SD = 3); ∗∗p < 0.001.