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International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 227-230
IJE vol.33 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Essay Review

Essay Review

Measured intelligence in childhood, social class and adult outcomes across Poland's sociopolitical transitions, 1945–1995

Zena A Stein and Mervyn Susser

Mailman School of Public Health and Sergievsky Center, Columbia University in the City of New York, 600 W168th St, New York, NY 10032. USA. E-mail: zenastein@aol.com

Intelligence and Success in Life. Anna Firkowska-Mankiewicz. Warsaw: IfiS Publishers, 2002.

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In this review we declare at once what could well qualify as a conflict of interest. In 1968 the author, Anna Firkowska-Mankiewicz of the National Academy of Sciences and her colleagues Antonia Ostrowska, Magdalena Sokolowska, and Ignacy Wald, together with ourselves and Lillian Belmont at Columbia University, conceived, designed, and analysed the cross-sectional survey of mental performance in 11 year old children in Warsaw described in this book as Warsaw I. Dr Firkowska and colleagues executed that field survey. Here, she provides a sequel to that study in the book under review. It reports a selected sample of those children on two subsequent occasions. The work is of considerable interest and societal relevance.*

Intelligence and Success in Life tackles three important issues. First, Dr Firkowska examines and attempts to explain the social factors associated with ‘intelligence’ in Warsaw schoolchildren in her sample. Second, she explores the significance of these various . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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