Are We Getting Smarter: Thoughts on the Flynn Effect

Seven years ago, I wrote the following book review for the Wall St. Journal.  I posted highlights with commentary  before, but here’s the whole thing.

 

Review: Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century by James R. Flynn.

James R. Flynn, one of the most influential figures in modern psychology, is not a psychologist.  He’s a trained political philosopher.  He broke into psychology in his fifties by painstakingly documenting the now-famous “Flynn effect” – the strong tendency of measured intelligence (“IQ” or “g”) to r...

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