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1 IQ score gains over 65 years worldwide: Cross-
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3 Q5 temporal meta-analysis datasets
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5 Q4 Peera Wongupparaj a, b, *, Veena Kumari c, Robin G. Morris b
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Cognitive Science and Innovation Research Unit (CSIRU), College of Research Methodology and Cognitive
7 Science, Burapha University, Thailand
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Department of Psychology, King's College Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, London, UK
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Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, UK
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12 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
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14 Article history: The observed gain in IQ scores over time has been examined and
15 Received 19 September 2019 supported. Nonetheless, this phenomenon (also called Flynn ef-
Received in revised form 18 November 2019 fect) may depend on age groups and country types. This article
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Accepted 19 November 2019
17 provides raw data from three standardized intelligence tests,
Available online xxx
18 namely, Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM), Standard Progres-
sive Matrices (SPM), and Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM).
19 Keywords:
The datasets contain mean IQ scores from APM, CPM, and SPM,
20 Flynn effect
Fluid intelligence and standard deviations, sample sizes, years of publication, par-
21 ticipants' groups, types of countries, country-based samples, and
A cross-temporal meta-analysis
22 Colour progressive matrices gender of participants. This data was obtained from 199, 369, and
23 Standard progressive matrices 176 individual study samples for CPM, SPM, and APM, respectively,
24 Advanced progressive matrices and covered a period of 65 years (1950e2014). There were 202,468
25 participants in total. An analysis and interpretation of results based
26 on a cross-temporal meta-analysis for mean IQ scores from CPM,
27 SPM, and APM over time can be found in the article “A Cross-
28 Temporal Meta-Analysis of Raven's Progressive Matrices: Age
29 groups and developing versus developed countries” (Wongup-
Q2 paraj, Kumari, Morris, 2015) [1]. These datasets can provide an
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extensive overview of the literature on Flynn effect across age
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groups, countries, and gender. In addition, they can serve as a
32 useful starting point for further meta-analyses of IQ scores derived
33 from CPM, SPM, and APM.
34 © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open
35 access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.
36 org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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39 * Corresponding author. Cognitive Science and Innovation Research Unit (CSIRU), College of Research Methodology and
40 Q1 Cognitive Science, Burapha University, Thailand.
41 E-mail address: peera.wo@go.buu.ac.th (P. Wongupparaj).

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1 Specifications Table
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Subject Psychology
3 Specific subject area Applied Psychology; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Psychology (General)
4 Type of data Sav files (SPSS files)
5 How data were acquired Raw data were collected from the research articles published in English, obtained using
6 scientific literature search methodology.
Data format Raw
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Parameters for data collection Each study was included in a final dataset for the Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (CTMA)
8 research if it could provide the mean and/or standard deviation IQ scores for the
9 Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM), Standard Progressive matrices (SPM), and
10 Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM). Additional information collected were the
11 authors, mean age of participants, countries of participants, sample sizes, careers,
genders reported in each study, incorporated into the final datasets for CTMA research.
12 Description of data collection All studies were identified through three main databases, that is, PubMed, ScienceDirect,
13 and SpringerLink. All relevant studies were reviewed and assessed according to
14 inclusion and exclusion criteria (see ‘Experimental designs, Materials, and Methods’).
15 The target parameters were then extracted from each included study.
Data source location The CPM, SPM, and APM datasets include respectively 38, 50, and countries worldwide.
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Data accessibility Repository name: Mendeley data
17 Data identification number: https://doi.org/10.17632/9jkchm9tnw.4
18 Datasets can be accessed at Mendeley data: Wongupparaj, Peera (2019), “Datasets for
19 Coloured, Standard, and Advanced Progressive Matrices (CPM, SPM, and APM) over 65
20 years (1950e2014)”, Mendeley Data, V4, https://doi.org/10.17632/9jkchm9tnw.3
The direct URL to data: https://doi.org/10.17632/9jkchm9tnw.3
21 Related research article Author's name: Wongupparaj, P., Kumari, V., & Morris, R. G.
22 Title: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Raven's Progressive
23 Matrices: Age groups and developing versus developed countries
24 Journal: Intelligence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.11.008
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29 Value of the Data
30  The data offers an extensive overview of the parameters for all three versions of Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) (i.e.
CPM, SPM, and APM) across age groups, countries, gender, occupations, sample sizes, and years of publication.
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 The datasets will be important for modelling and testing the psychometric properties (i.e. reliability and validity) of the
32 RPM over time and contexts.
33  The obtained data of these datasets can be used in further studies to investigate the IQ rise or decline (i.e. the Flynn effect
34 vs the Anti-Flynn effect) across age groups, countries, gender, and occupations.
 The datasets will be useful to provide several strategies to estimate and reduce the Flynn effect on the interpretation of the
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IQ tests.
36  The datasets will be of useful to provide a starting point for conducting further meta-analysis or computing an updated
37 meta-analytic estimate from 1950 to present across three versions of the RPM.
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1. Data
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The data for CPM, SPM, and APM are in SPSS files (sav). The CPM file contains 10 variables from 199
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independent samples, namely, authors of each study, mean age of participants (2.90e80 years), years
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of publication (1956e2014) countries of participants (38 countries), type of countries (73% developed
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and 27% developing countries), sample sizes (6e2255 participants), careers (83.9% students), gender in
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each study (6.7% male only, 1.0% female only, and 92.3% mixed).
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The SPM file also contains 10 variables from 369 independent samples: Authors of each study, mean
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age of participants (5.50e79 years), years of publication (1950e2014), countries of participants (50
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countries), type of countries (73% developed and 27% developing countries), sample sizes (6e2255
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participants), careers (83.9% students), gender in each study (6.7% male only, 1.0% female only, and
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92.3% mixed).
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Finally, the APM file offers 10 variables from 176 independent samples, that is, authors of each study,
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mean age of participants (8.68e46.05 years), years of publication (1967e2014), countries of partici-
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pants (28 countries), type of countries (94% developed and 6% developing countries), sample sizes
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1 (8e7335 participants), careers (73% students), gender in each study (87% mixed, 10.5% male only, and
2 2.8% female only).
3 The complete references for included studies are additionally available in the Appendix A: Sup-
4 plementary data section of Ref. [2].
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7 2. Experimental design, materials, and methods
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9 2.1. Data and literature search strategy
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11 The key terms used were “Raven's Progressive Matrices”, “RPM”, “Coloured Progressive Matrices”,
12 “CPM”, “Standard Progressive Matrices”, “SPM”, “Advanced Progressive Matrices”, and “APM”, and
13 these used search strings were primarily located through only data bases, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and
14 SpringerLink. PubMed contains references and abstracts, with extensive studies in life sciences and
15 biomedical topics. ScienceDirect covers scientific and medical research, including main studies in
16 physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences and social sciences and humanities.
17 Finally, SpringerLink is a record of scientific, technological, and medical studies. The search strategy
18 was for studies published between 1936 and 2014.
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20 2.2. Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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22 Studies were contained in the datasets were reviewed according to the inclusion and exclusion
23 criteria, namely the studies had to report the mean and/or standard deviation IQ scores of standard
24 versions of the IQ test The target parameters from studies with a test-retest method were also collected
25 but only pre-test scores were recorded and if several studies investigated the same dataset and/or
26 sample, the mean and/or standard deviation IQ scores were treated as a single data point. In addition,
27 the target parameters from clinical studies were included if the given parameters were reported for
28 healthy controls. The exclusion criteria included the mean and/or standard deviation IQ scores from
29 short-form, odd-or even-item, and modified versions of the CPM, SPM, and APM. Further, review ar-
30 ticles, letter/personal communication, editorials, case report studies, studies with insufficient data,
31 duplicate studies were excluded.
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33 2.3. Data extraction
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35 Two researchers independently reviewed all relevant studies and all parameters. The process of
36 identifying and screening studies for the final datasets was undertaken based on the PRISMA guideline [2].
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38 Acknowledgments
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40 Q3 The authors would like to affirm that there is no conflict of interest that is relevant to the content of
41 the present data article. This work was supported by the research funding from Cognitive Science and
42 Innovation Research Unit (CSIRU), Burapha University, Thailand (Grant Number 011/2562).
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44 Conflict of Interest
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46 The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relation-
47 ships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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49 References
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