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YULE'S “HUMP” REVISITED
Author(s) -
DOBBINS D. ALAN
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1988.tb00909.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , humanities , philosophy
S ummary . Reading and non‐verbal intelligence tests were given to over 5,000 nine‐ to 10‐year‐old pupils to investigate whether there was evidence to support the existence of Yule's “hump” — a group of children with severe and specific retardation which is not just the lower end of a normal continuum (Yule et al. , 1974). The results are inconclusive but may, depending on interpretation, give some support to the notion of a small “hump”.