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Chapter 9 - g Theory

How Recurring Variation in Human Intelligence and the Complexity of Everyday Tasks Create Social Structure and the Democratic Dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2018

Robert J. Sternberg
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Cornell University, New York
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