Physiologically accelerated children are mentally accelerated: height correlates with mental age +0.53 for 49 girls with age held constant¶

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q2 i2 For 49 girls, partial correlation (with age constant) between height and mental age is +0.53, between height and weight +0.57, and between height and ar-ray +0.52, indicating physiologically accelerated girls are mentally accelerated. → Bird T. Baldwin 1922

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Bird T. Baldwin 1922¶

Bird T. Baldwin. (1922). The Relation Between Mental and Physical Growth. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. XIII, No. 1. https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/13/1/193

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Partial-correlation analysis of height, weight, carpal-bone area and Stanford-Binet mental age for 49 girls examined at Iowa City. The printed effect size is r = +0.53 for height and mental age with age held constant (the author reports "For height and mental age the coefficient is +0.53").

"The coefficient for the group of 49 girls by the method of partial correlation (with age constant) is between height and weight +0.57; between height and ar-ray +0.52. For height and mental age the coefficient is +0.53."

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