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REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE IN EGYPT: A COUNTRY WHERE UPPER IS LOWER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2018

Edward Dutton ,
Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet Open the ORCID record for Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet [Opens in a new window] ,
Khaled Elsayed Ziada ,
Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa ,
Hamada Ali Abdelmuti Ali  and
Shehana Mohammed Alqafari
Edward Dutton*
Affiliation:
Ulster Institute for Social Research, London
Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Khaled Elsayed Ziada
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Menoufia University, Egypt
Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hamada Ali Abdelmuti Ali
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Shehana Mohammed Alqafari
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*
1Corresponding author. Email: ecdutton@hotmail.com
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Summary

Two administrations of the Coloured Progressive Matrices in Egypt were compared. The first was administered to a large, representative national sample between 2011 and 2013. The second was administered to primary school pupils in villages in Menoufia in northern Egypt in 2017. Adjusting for the Flynn Effect, the IQ of the rural northern Egyptians was shown to be statistically significantly higher than the national average. It is demonstrated that this is consistent with regional socioeconomic differences in Egypt, which strongly imply that northern Egypt has a higher average IQ than southern Egypt.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 273 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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