The Flynn Effect and IQ Disparities Among Races, Ethnicities, and Nations: Are There Common Links? | Psychology Today

@media print { body { margin: 2mm 9mm; } .original-url { display: none; } #article .float.left { float: left !important; } #article .float.right { float: right !important; } #article .float { margin-top: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0 !important; } }The Flynn Effect and IQ Disparities Among Races, Ethnicities, and Nations: Are There Common Links? | Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beautiful-minds/201008/the-flynn-effect-and-iq-disparities-among-races-ethnicities-and-nationsThe Flynn Effect and IQ Disparities Among Races, Ethnicities, and Nations: Are There Common Links?Connecting the Flynn Effect to racial, ethnic, and national disparities in IQPosted Aug 23, 2010The 20th century witnessed a dramatic increase in IQ, as much as 3 points per decade (seeAre you smarter than Aristotle? Part I). The fact that IQ scores increased so much in such a short amount of time has raised many issues about the nature ofintelligence, and what intelligence tests are measuring. For instance, while an individual ' s IQ test performance within a particular generation tends to be relatively stable and is determined by a complex mix of nature and nurture, such dramatic increasesacrossgenerations demonstrates the potent influence of theenvironment on the development of cognitive abilities.Multiple researchers have proposed theories to explain the Flynn effect. On...
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