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If the significance of the “Flynn Effect” is appreciated, we will stop looking at IQ trends as exotic numbers and see them as signs of social problems, changing social relationships, and what aging does to our minds.
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Library marketing associate Marie analyzes trends in teen speech and behavior to reveal how the Flynn effect impacts this subculture.
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What’s it like to have an effect named after you? After the landmark publication of What is Intelligence?, eminent professor James R. Flynn became known for the “Flynn Effect”—the finding that there has been a massive increase in IQ test scores between successive generations. In his new book, Are We Getting Smarter?, Flynn considers what this rise in IQ tells us about our minds and society. We sat down recently with Flynn to chat about his groundbreaking research, and what’s next for the Flynn Effect.
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James R. Flynn first made headlines for the Flynn effect—i.e, the finding that there has been a massive increase in IQ test scores between successive generations. Yet this past summer summer, his research turned heads again with his eye-opening data on women’s rapidly rising IQ.
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