Hey, ever wonder if we are getting any smarter?Moral philosopher James Flynn has put a great deal ...

Hey, ever wonder if we are getting any smarter?

Moral philosopher James Flynn has put a great deal of time gathering his data and thoughts on the subject of our intelligence, a question most of us have asked ourselves at one time or another. Flynn in this lecture suggests that changes in the way we think is raising "IQ" in many parts of the world including, our own. But are we really "smarter" than our grandparents?

It's called the "Flynn effect" — the fact that each generation scores higher on an IQ test than the generation before it. Are we actually getting smarter, or just thinking differently? In this fast-paced spin through the cognitive history of the 20th century, moral philosopher James Flynn suggests that changes in the way we think have had surprising (and not always positive) consequences.