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Science 29 July 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4302, pp. 482 - 483
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4302.482
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Childhood IQ's as Predictors of Adult Educational and Occupational Status

ROBERT B. McCALL 1

1 Fels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

IQ's between 3 and 18 years of age were used to predict attained education and occupational status after 26 years of age. By the second grade these predictive correlations approached those that have been obtained with contemporaneous adult IQ's, especially for occupational status. However, they were not high enough for practical purposes requiring long-term prediction for individual normal children.

Submitted on January 16, 1976
Revised on April 28, 1977


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