Catching Up to Women’s Rising IQ

Known for the “Flynn Effect,” James R. Flynn turned heads again with his eye-opening data on women’s rapidly rising IQ. After nearly a hundred years of lagging behind men’s IQ scores, sometimes by as much as five points, women have not only closed the gap, but in many cases are surpassing men. As part of the so-called Millenial generation, I can’t say I was particularly surprised by such data—I was more caught off-guard that it hadn’t been confirmed earlier.