John B Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John B Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1825 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Husband–wife similarities in different components of the Wais IQ test
Examination of 150 husband–wife pairs from the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire for levels of similarity in their performance of seven subtests of the WAIS IQ test showed significant positive correlation in five subtests but not in digit span or digit symbol. In no test was there any relation between level of spouse similarity and length of marriage. Scores were varyingly associated with several factors known to be related to total IQ, such as soci…
Geographical mobility and IQ components
In relation to two measures of the mobility involved in the migration histories of individuals now resident in the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire, selectivity for components of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is clearly demonstrated. However, this selectivity is reconsidered in the light of other covariates of mobility, where these also relate to IQ, for example, some measures of temporal and socioeconomic variation. When correction is made…
Migration and the structure of the Otmoor villages
Patterns of variation in I.Q., personality and stature are examined in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire according to village of residence and whether people were born locally or not. It is shown that the locally born do not vary by village in I.Q., but that immigrants do and this is not solely due to social-class associations. Immigrants also have substantially higher I.Qs than those born locally. The findings are discussed in terms of the select…
Social Mobility and Psychometric Variation in a Group of Oxfordshire Villages
The patterns of male social mobility among the contemporary populations of Otmoor are described in terms of both intra- and inter-generational mobility. The social classes are differentiated by IQ and it is shown that sons' IQ is more highly correlated with their class, after their social mobility than before it. In 85 father-son pairs the number of steps sons moved in the social scale is positively related to the magnitude of the difference betw…
Lung function in an Australian population
A study of lung function in 203 twin pairs aged 18-34 years living in Sydney detected significant genetic variation in females and males. There was no evidence of family environmental effects in either sex and most of the repeatable variation in females was heritable. However, there was evidence for systematic environmental differences between males affecting lung function so that the heritability was lower in males (about 0.6) than females (abou…
A note on familial relations in IQ
Parent-child correlations for IQ components in a small sample of Oxfordshire families were lower, particularly for performance IQ, in children over 18 years of age than in younger children
A search for association between gene markers and serum cholesterol, triglyceride, urate and blood pressure
This study was carried out to search for possible association between some polymorphic systems including ABO, MNSs, Rh, Duffy, Kell, Kidd, haptoglobin (Hp) and red cell acid phosphatase (PHs), and the variables serum cholesterol, triglyceride, urate, haemoglobin and blood pressure, in two separate samples of the Australian white population. Allele frequencies of each of the gene marker systems were comparable to those obtained by other workers fo…
A biological survey of a Cambridge suburb
An account is given of a study, carried out in a Cambridge suburb, which measured the similarity in IQ and some personality traits between spouses. In both sexes mean IQ scores tended to diminish from social class I to V. Lower IQ scores were associated with higher levels of extraversion, neuroticism and inconsistency. Assortative marriage was found for IQ components, Total IQ, extraversion-introversion and inconsistency scores. Both geographical…
Social mobility and IQ components
This study examines the relationship between verbal, performance and total IQ scores and social class of 193 male householders living in a Cambridge suburb. The correlation coefficients between IQ scores and present occupational status were significantly higher than the correlations between IQ scores and social class of origin, suggesting that intragenerational social mobility is positively related to IQ. Parent–offspring data were available for …
The Biological Hazards of Urban Living
Man in Urban Environments
Genetic variation in some Oxfordshire villages
The oxidation state of Cu nanoparticles during CO oxidation in CO + O 2 gas mixtures was sensitively monitored via localized surface plasmon resonances. A microreactor, equipped with in situ UV-vis and mass spectrometry, was developed and used for the measurements. Cu nanoparticles of ∼30 nm average diameter were supported on optically transparent, planar quartz wafers. The aim of the study is 2-fold: (i) to demonstrate the performance and useful…
Assortative marriage for psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
A study has been made in a group of rural Oxfordshire villages of levels of similarity between husbands and wives for IQ, personality and some anthropometric characteristics. Significant levels of assortative marriage have been found in both verbal and performance IQ, personality ‘inconsistency’, stature, weight and some other bodily dimensions. Their nature has been analysed by time of marriage, birthplace and social class, all of which appear t…
A note on marital distances and movement, and age at marriage, in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of the patterns of pre-marital, marital, and post-marital movement and age of marriage according to social class among the present inhabitants of a group of Oxfordshire villages.
Hand preference and I.Q. in a group of Oxfordshire villages
Verbal and performance scores in a standard intelligence test (WAIS) were considered in relation to patterns of hand preference (measured by questionnaire) in a large sample of the general population. Left-handers and mixed-handers did not obtain lower scores than right-handers. Indeed, there was a tendency for subjects who reported that they could use either hand for at least one of the questionnaire tasks to obtain higher I.Q.s. Otherwise, ther…
Psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of a survey of psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation among adults resident in nine villages in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire. Using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, I.Q. variation was found between the sexes, social/occupational groups and the villages. Measures of extraversion and consistency obtained from the Eysenck Personality Inventory differentiated the social classes, and neuroticism the sexes.…
Biological aspects of a high socio-economic group II. IQ Components and Social Mobility
Data are presented on the verbal and performance (non-verbal) IQs of a sample of university scientists, their surviving fathers and male sibs. Although mean IQs differ between scientific disciplines the disciplines do not differentially attract scientists from particular socio-economic classes. The verbal IQs of both the scientists and their fathers are positively correlated with socio-economic class but only in the fathers' sample is the perform…
Biological Aspects of a High Socio-Economic Group
Data are presented on the social backgrounds and IQs of a sample of scientists, their male sibs and their fathers. The range of IQ in the scientists is similar to the range of scores expected of the higher 25% of a representative general population sample. The IQs of the scientists showed a positive correlation with social class. Differences in IQ between the scientists and their fathers in each social class are related to the distance the scient…
Therapeutic and Industrial Uses of Music
Observations on the Trap Rocks of the Connewago Hills near Middletown, Dauphin County, and of the Stony Ridge near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
John B. Gibson, Observations on the Trap Rocks of the Connewago Hills near Middletown, Dauphin County, and of the Stony Ridge near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 2 (1825), pp. 156-166
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Observations on the Trap Rocks of the Connewago Hills near Middletown, Dauphin County, and of the Stony Ridge near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
John B. Gibson, Observations on the Trap Rocks of the Connewago Hills near Middletown, Dauphin County, and of the Stony Ridge near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 2 (1825), pp. 156-166
Therapeutic and Industrial Uses of Music
Biological Aspects of a High Socio-Economic Group
Data are presented on the social backgrounds and IQs of a sample of scientists, their male sibs and their fathers. The range of IQ in the scientists is similar to the range of scores expected of the higher 25% of a representative general population sample. The IQs of the scientists showed a positive correlation with social class. Differences in IQ between the scientists and their fathers in each social class are related to the distance the scient…
Biological aspects of a high socio-economic group II. IQ Components and Social Mobility
Data are presented on the verbal and performance (non-verbal) IQs of a sample of university scientists, their surviving fathers and male sibs. Although mean IQs differ between scientific disciplines the disciplines do not differentially attract scientists from particular socio-economic classes. The verbal IQs of both the scientists and their fathers are positively correlated with socio-economic class but only in the fathers' sample is the perform…
Psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of a survey of psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation among adults resident in nine villages in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire. Using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, I.Q. variation was found between the sexes, social/occupational groups and the villages. Measures of extraversion and consistency obtained from the Eysenck Personality Inventory differentiated the social classes, and neuroticism the sexes.…
Hand preference and I.Q. in a group of Oxfordshire villages
Verbal and performance scores in a standard intelligence test (WAIS) were considered in relation to patterns of hand preference (measured by questionnaire) in a large sample of the general population. Left-handers and mixed-handers did not obtain lower scores than right-handers. Indeed, there was a tendency for subjects who reported that they could use either hand for at least one of the questionnaire tasks to obtain higher I.Q.s. Otherwise, ther…
Assortative marriage for psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
A study has been made in a group of rural Oxfordshire villages of levels of similarity between husbands and wives for IQ, personality and some anthropometric characteristics. Significant levels of assortative marriage have been found in both verbal and performance IQ, personality ‘inconsistency’, stature, weight and some other bodily dimensions. Their nature has been analysed by time of marriage, birthplace and social class, all of which appear t…
A note on marital distances and movement, and age at marriage, in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of the patterns of pre-marital, marital, and post-marital movement and age of marriage according to social class among the present inhabitants of a group of Oxfordshire villages.
Genetic variation in some Oxfordshire villages
The oxidation state of Cu nanoparticles during CO oxidation in CO + O 2 gas mixtures was sensitively monitored via localized surface plasmon resonances. A microreactor, equipped with in situ UV-vis and mass spectrometry, was developed and used for the measurements. Cu nanoparticles of ∼30 nm average diameter were supported on optically transparent, planar quartz wafers. The aim of the study is 2-fold: (i) to demonstrate the performance and useful…
Social mobility and IQ components
This study examines the relationship between verbal, performance and total IQ scores and social class of 193 male householders living in a Cambridge suburb. The correlation coefficients between IQ scores and present occupational status were significantly higher than the correlations between IQ scores and social class of origin, suggesting that intragenerational social mobility is positively related to IQ. Parent–offspring data were available for …
The Biological Hazards of Urban Living
Man in Urban Environments
A biological survey of a Cambridge suburb
An account is given of a study, carried out in a Cambridge suburb, which measured the similarity in IQ and some personality traits between spouses. In both sexes mean IQ scores tended to diminish from social class I to V. Lower IQ scores were associated with higher levels of extraversion, neuroticism and inconsistency. Assortative marriage was found for IQ components, Total IQ, extraversion-introversion and inconsistency scores. Both geographical…
A search for association between gene markers and serum cholesterol, triglyceride, urate and blood pressure
This study was carried out to search for possible association between some polymorphic systems including ABO, MNSs, Rh, Duffy, Kell, Kidd, haptoglobin (Hp) and red cell acid phosphatase (PHs), and the variables serum cholesterol, triglyceride, urate, haemoglobin and blood pressure, in two separate samples of the Australian white population. Allele frequencies of each of the gene marker systems were comparable to those obtained by other workers fo…
A note on familial relations in IQ
Parent-child correlations for IQ components in a small sample of Oxfordshire families were lower, particularly for performance IQ, in children over 18 years of age than in younger children
Social Mobility and Psychometric Variation in a Group of Oxfordshire Villages
The patterns of male social mobility among the contemporary populations of Otmoor are described in terms of both intra- and inter-generational mobility. The social classes are differentiated by IQ and it is shown that sons' IQ is more highly correlated with their class, after their social mobility than before it. In 85 father-son pairs the number of steps sons moved in the social scale is positively related to the magnitude of the difference betw…
Lung function in an Australian population
A study of lung function in 203 twin pairs aged 18-34 years living in Sydney detected significant genetic variation in females and males. There was no evidence of family environmental effects in either sex and most of the repeatable variation in females was heritable. However, there was evidence for systematic environmental differences between males affecting lung function so that the heritability was lower in males (about 0.6) than females (abou…
Migration and the structure of the Otmoor villages
Patterns of variation in I.Q., personality and stature are examined in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire according to village of residence and whether people were born locally or not. It is shown that the locally born do not vary by village in I.Q., but that immigrants do and this is not solely due to social-class associations. Immigrants also have substantially higher I.Qs than those born locally. The findings are discussed in terms of the select…
Husband–wife similarities in different components of the Wais IQ test
Examination of 150 husband–wife pairs from the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire for levels of similarity in their performance of seven subtests of the WAIS IQ test showed significant positive correlation in five subtests but not in digit span or digit symbol. In no test was there any relation between level of spouse similarity and length of marriage. Scores were varyingly associated with several factors known to be related to total IQ, such as soci…
Geographical mobility and IQ components
In relation to two measures of the mobility involved in the migration histories of individuals now resident in the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire, selectivity for components of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is clearly demonstrated. However, this selectivity is reconsidered in the light of other covariates of mobility, where these also relate to IQ, for example, some measures of temporal and socioeconomic variation. When correction is made…
Demography (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social class (9 works) · Intelligence quotient (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Geography (7 works)