Familial resemblance for the Identical Blocks Test of spatial ability: No evidence for X linkage
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavior Genetics
- Vol. 10 (2) , 211-215
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01066271
Abstract
The Identical Blocks Test of spatial ability was administered to subsamples of the two largest ethnic groups tested in the Hawaii Family Study of Cognition—Americans of European ancestry (171 families) and Americans of Japanese ancestry (98 families). Results of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis of family data and correlational analyses provided no evidence to support the hypothesis that spatial ability is influenced by a major, X-linked, recessive gene. Thus it appears that recent failures to replicate the sex-linkage pattern obtained by Stafford (1961) are not due to differences in the tests employed. We suggest that alternative explanations should be sought for the well-known sex difference in spatial ability.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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