Commentary: Height and intelligence
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Commentary: Height and intelligence.
In 1892, WT Porter published a study of 33 500 students entitled ‘The physical basis of precocity and dullness’ in which he reported that taller students performed better academically than did shorter students of the same age.1 Since then many studies in developed and developing countries have shown that children who are shorter or whose linear growth is retarded tend to gain lower scores in te...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi064