Cognitive Ability Assessment with Two New Zealand Ethnic Groups

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Abstract
A battery of verbal and nonverbal tests of cognitive ability was administered to 110 four-year-old Maori and Pakeha children in New Zealand. Socioeconomic status was controlled by means of an SES scale based on level of income and education. Results indicated that when SES was controlled few significant differences emerged between the two groups, with verbal tests yielding the largest differences. Socioeconomic status was found to be related to test performance, with higher SES subjects scoring significantly higher on five of the nine tests. Finally, a sex difference vws observed and found to be related to ethnicity. In the Pakeha sample, males tended to obtain higher scores whereas in the Maori group, females ware the high scorers.

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