Two decades ago, James R. Flynn, a professor emeritus at the University of Otaga in New Zealand found that IQ test scores have been increasing over the years–a phenomenon known as the “Flynn Effect”. This is despite failing schools and stagnant standardized test scores. In his new book “What is Intelligence?”, he talks about the [...]
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American Nobel Prize-winning scientist, James Watson, created more controversy recently around the racial issues in IQ testing by being quoted as saying he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all testing says not really.” [...]
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Arguments about race and IQ show up about once every ten years and always seem to cause a fuss. The real question is, however, do they really mean anything? The evidence appears real that IQ does differ between racial groups and that blacks score on average fifteen points less than Caucasians and that the Chinese [...]
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