What is intelligence?
beyond the Flynn effect
by James Robert Flynn · first published 2009
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The 'Flynn Effect' refers to Professor James Flynn's renowned research into the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the 20th century. But do rising IQs actually mean rising intelligence?
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…publisher of that test, and he doesn't make that claim. The long, careful examination of what the Raven tests show, in conjunction with other evidence, can be found in James R. Flynn's excellent book What Is Intelligence?, which is about to come out in a new, expanded edition. http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Expanded-PB-Beyond/d... Also very good for reconsidering the importance of IQ tests is Keith Stanovich's…
on “Children of older fathers have lower IQs” ↗"Noting that raw I.Q. scores have been climbing by three points a decade since World War II across racial, income and regional boundaries" I hope he has the decency to cite James R. Flynn's book What Is Intelligence http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/... which is by far the best scholarly discussion of that phenomenon. In most of these sorts of social trends, there are usually trade-offs.…
on “A Generation With More Than Hand-Eye Coordination” ↗…recent reading on this subject is Neisser, Ulric (Ed.) (1998). The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Flynn, James R. (2009). What Is Intelligence: Beyond the Flynn Effect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
on “The looming crisis in human genetics” ↗I'd recommend a couple of books: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck, What Is Intelligence?, by James Flynn.
on “Ask HN: How do I become smarter?” ↗Actually, reading James Flynn's book What Is Intelligence?, I got the impression that environment and culture plays a huge factor in IQ. Genetics is a factor, obviously, too. But accepting IQ as a mostly function of race or sex, which some people are always…
on “Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and population ageing may be why” ↗I suggest you read the book "What is Intelligence?" by James Flynn himself. It's a cautious and erudite work, and the theory they float does seem to resolve quite a few of the mysteries. Perhaps most importantly, the data do not bear out universal and…
on “Technology is Heroin” ↗…Celia (Eds.) (1987) Arthur Jensen: Concensus and Controversy New York: Falmer. Here's what Charles Murray (all right, not a psychologist nor a geneticist) says in his back cover blurb for Flynn's book What Is Intelligence?: http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/... "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily…
on “A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science” ↗…national average IQ differences to date. By contrast, Lynn is decried as a sloppy scholar,[4] and is not taken seriously by the mainstream of human intelligence researchers. [1] http://www.amazon.com/What-Is-Intelligence-Flynn-ebook/dp/B0... http://www.amazon.com/Are-Getting-Smarter-James-Flynn-ebook/... http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Human-Progress-Story-Hidd... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/james-r-f...…
on “Average IQ in Europe by country (map)” ↗…http://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Adolescent-Adult-Intelligenc... What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovich http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog... What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect by James R. Flynn http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/... Handbook of Intelligence edited by Robert Sternberg http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Intelligence-Robert-Sternberg...…
on “What are you reading?” ↗…neurology, immediate environment and broader social factors...he has produced an impressively multidimensional and often wise look at the elusive topic of human intelligence." --Publisher's Weekly "In What is Intelligence? James R. Flynn...suggests that we should not faciley equate IQ gains with intelligence gains. He says that it's necessary to 'dissect intelligence' into its component parts: 'solving mathematical problems,…
on “What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race” ↗