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Nicholas Kristof's latest Op-Ed reinforces one of Cambridge author James Flynn's central theses: that IQ gaps along racial lines can be attributed to nurture, not genetics.
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Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence? author James Flynn, and the world of measuring intelligence in today’s USA Today.
Read MoreWhat Is Intelligence? author and “Flynn-Effect” namesake James Flynn figured in a New York Times article about the possibility of training certain kinds of intelligence. Meaning, learning what is supposed to be inherent! Flynn maintains that a lot of what IQ tests examine are traits that have significant environmental influences. Hence, the fact that, generation […]
Read MoreIntelligence researcher and Cambridge author James Flynn has a fresh batch of interesting research results, as reported in several papers. Flynn’s research famously shows rising IQ scores from generation to generation (the Flynn Effect). Flynn believes these changes to be environmental. Well, amongst teenagers in Britain, it’s dropped on last generation. What does this mean […]
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Obama may think it safer to keep his sanity intact. But unless he presses on some hotly debated topics, we’ll be left with a world at risk. Barack Obama will want to show that a black President can fill the office with dignity.The simplest way to do that is to chart a middle course that […]
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The overriding question of James Flynn’s latest book is so great that he’s named his book after it: Where Have all the Liberals Gone? His conclusion: liberals in the US need to show more courage in confronting the rhetoric and policies of the out-going administration, or they’ll prove themselves to be complicit. And that doesn’t […]
Read MoreIn The New Scientist Perspectives Section this month, James Flynn argues for a confrontation of issues surrounding race and IQ. His research into changing IQ scores over the past few decades (the Flynn Effect) demonstrates that environmental, not genetic factors underlie the lower IQ scores of African Americans. This leads him to ask some uncomfortable […]
Read MoreAfter chants of “Drill, baby, drill” at the Republican National Convention, a Democratic Congress has changed their attitudes on offshore drilling. From the New York Times: ‘Even more surprising, the turnabout is led by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who has a history of fighting oil drilling going back to the early days of her […]
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