Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus, University of Ulster
Born 1930 (age 85–86)
Bristol, England
Fields Psychology
Institutions Ulster University
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Known for Race and intelligence

Richard Lynn (born 1930) is an English professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Ulster[1][2] and assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly.[3] Lynn studies intelligence and is known for his belief in racial differences in intelligence.[4] Lynn was educated at King's College, Cambridge in England. He has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He has written or co-written 11 books and more than 200 journal articles spanning five decades. Two of his recent books are on dysgenics and eugenics.

Lynn's research on racial and national differences in intelligence is controversial. In the late 1970s, Lynn wrote that he found that Northeast Asians have a higher average intelligence quotient (IQ) than Europeans and Europeans have a higher average IQ than Sub-Saharan Africans. In 1990, he proposed that the Flynn effect – the gradual increase in IQ scores observed around the world since the 1930s – could possibly be explained by improved nutrition. In two books co-written with Tatu Vanhanen, Lynn and Vanhanen argued that differences in developmental indexes among various nations are partially caused by the average IQ of their citizens. However, Earl Hunt and Werner Wittmann (2006) questioned the validity of their research methods and the highly inconsistent quality of the available data points that Lynn and Vanhanen used in their analysis.[5] Lynn has also argued that the high fertility rate among individuals of low IQ constitutes a major threat to Western civilization, as he believes people with low IQ scores will eventually outnumber high-IQ individuals. He has argued in favor of political measures to prevent this, including anti-immigration and eugenics policies, provoking heavy criticism internationally.[6][7][8] Lynn's work was among the main sources cited in the book The Bell Curve and he was one of 52 scientists who signed an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Mainstream Science on Intelligence",[9] which endorsed a number of the views presented in the book.

Lynn sits on the editorial boards of the journals Intelligence,[10] Personality and Individual Differences,[11] and Mankind Quarterly, which has been called a white supremacist publication.[12][13] He's also on the board of the Pioneer Fund, which funds Mankind Quarterly, and has also been described as racist in nature.[12][13] A number of scientists, including Leon Kamin, have criticised Lynn's work on racial and national demography and intelligence for lacking scientific rigour and for promoting a racialist political agenda.[6][8][14][15][16][17] A number of people, such as historian of psychology William Tucker, have said that Lynn is associated with a network of academics and organizations that promote scientific racism.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

Early life and career

Lynn is the son of Sydney Cross Harland (1891—1982), a botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), known for his work on cotton genetics. Lynn's parents divorced when he was young and he was 19 when he met his father who had moved abroad to work in Trinidad and then Peru before returning to England in 1949 for a position as professor of genetics at the University of Manchester.[27]

Lynn was educated at Bristol Grammar School and University of Cambridge in England.[2] He has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at Ulster University at Coleraine.

In 1974, Lynn published a positive review of Raymond Cattell's A New Morality from Science: Beyondism, in which he expressed the opinion that "incompetent societies have to be allowed to go to the wall" and that "the foreign aid which we give to the under-developed world is a mistake, akin to keeping going incompetent species like the dinosaurs which are not fit for the competitive struggle for existence."[28] In recent years, Lynn has cited the work of Cattell and Cyril Burt as important influences on his own thought.[29]

Publication on secular increases in IQ

Lynn's 1983 article in Nature played some part in bringing the phenomenon of massive score gains on standardized intelligence tests over time to widespread attention.[30] This phenomenon was called the "Flynn effect" in Richard Herrstein and Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve published in 1994.[31] The term "Flynn effect" is now standard in the psychological literature to refer to secular increases in IQ.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] Some authors refer to the phenomenon under the name "Lynn-Flynn effect".[41][42][43]

Race and national differences in intelligence

In the late 1970s, Lynn wrote that he found a higher average IQ in Northeast Asians compared to Europeans (6 points higher in his meta-analysis), and Europeans to be about 2 standard deviations (or 30 points) higher than Sub-Saharan Africans.

Lynn's psychometric studies were cited in the 1994 book The Bell Curve and were criticised as part of the controversy surrounding that book.[44] In his article, "Skin color and intelligence in African Americans," (2002) published in Population and Environment, Lynn concluded that lightness of skin color in African Americans is positively correlated with IQ, which he claims derives from the higher proportion of Caucasian admixture.[45] However, Lynn failed to control for childhood environmental factors that are related to intelligence, and his research was criticized by a subsequent article published in the journal.[46]

Lynn’s work on national IQ differences attracted hostility from mainstream establishment media. Major publishers would not publish them and many major journals would not review them.[47] After quoting Lynn’s work, Nobel Laureate James Watson was forced to retire from Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory in 2007.[47] Lynn's work gradually received more citations, and, according to James Thompson, "Despite all attempts to ignore his findings, Lynn’s dogged accumulation of data made a considerable contribution to understanding human differences.[47]"

In IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002), Lynn and Vanhanen argued that differences in nations' per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are partially caused by IQ differences, meaning that certain nations are wealthier in part, because their citizens are more intelligent.[48][49] K Richardson wrote in the journal Heredity that "an association between IQ and national wealth is hardly surprising, though its causal direction is the opposite of that assumed by L&V. But I would not take the 'evidence' presented in this book to serve arguments either way."[49] Other economists who reviewed the book also pointed to numerous flaws throughout the study, from unreliable IQ statistics for 81 of the 185 countries used in the analysis,[50] to insecure estimates of the national IQ in the remaining 101 countries in the sample that did not have published IQ data.[51] This was in addition to the highly unreliable GDP estimates for present-day developing countries[49] and the even more unreliable historical data estimating GDP and national IQ dating back to the early 19th century, well before either concept even existed.[49][51] Even the data on the 81 countries where direct evidence of IQ scores were actually available were highly problematic. For example, the data sets containing Surinamese, Ethiopian, and Mexican IQ scores were based on unrepresentative samples of children who had emigrated from their nation of birth to the Netherlands, Israel, and Argentina, respectively.[5] In a book review for the Journal of Economic Literature, economist Thomas Nechyba wrote, "Such sweeping conclusions based on relatively weak statistical evidence and dubious presumptions seem misguided at best and quite dangerous if taken seriously. It is therefore difficult to find much to recommend in this book."[48]

Lynn's 2006 Race Differences in Intelligence[52] is the largest review of the global cognitive ability data. The book organises the data by nine global regions, surveying 620 published studies from around the world, with a total of 813,778 tested individuals.

Lynn's meta-analysis lists the average IQ scores of East Asians (105), Europeans (99), the Inuit (91), Southeast Asians and indigenous peoples of the Americas each (87), Pacific Islanders (85), Middle Easterners (including South Asians and North Africans) (84), East and West Africans (67), Australian Aborigines (62) and Bushmen and Pygmies (54).[53][54][55]

Lynn has previously argued that nutrition is the best-supported environmental explanation for variation in the lower range,[56] and a number of other environmental explanations have been advanced. Ashkenazi Jews average 107–115 in the US and Britain due to their better performance in verbal and reasoning tests even though they performed lower in visual and spatial ability tests, but those in Israel average lower.[57]

Another of Lynn's books is The Global Bell Curve, published in June 2008.[58] In describing the book, Lynn says "it concludes that IQ is a key explanatory variable for the social sciences, analogous to gravity in physics."[59] It was reviewed by J. Philippe Rushton around the time of publication.[60]

In a paper published in 2005 about IQ in Mexico, Lynn reported that Mexicans of European descent had an IQ of 98, Mestizos in Mexicos had an IQ of 94 and indigenous peoples of Mexico had an IQ of 83, explaining the lower than expected IQ of Indians on their poor nutrition and other social factors.

In a 2010 paper about IQ in Italy,[61] Lynn contends that IQs are highest in the north (103 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia) and lowest in the south (89 in Sicily) and correlated with average incomes, and with stature, infant mortality, literacy and education. The lack of any actual IQ test data among other methodological issues and Lynn's consequent conclusions were criticised.[62]

Other large surveys in Italy show much smaller differences in educational achievement.[63][64] Moreover, several subsequent studies based on the direct assessment of IQs failed to report significant differences among Italian regions. On the contrary, the results from the Southern half of the country are sometimes higher than those from the North Central regions.[65]

Sex differences in intelligence

Lynn's research correlating brain size and reaction time with measured intelligence led him to the problem that men and women have different-sized brains in proportion to their bodies.[27] In 1994, Lynn conducted a meta-analysis and claimed that an IQ difference of roughly 4 points does appear from age 16 and onwards, but detection of this had been complicated by the faster rate of maturation of girls up to that point, which compensates for the IQ difference. However, there is consensus in the field of psychology that there are no sex differences in intelligence.

Despite some criticism,[66] their theory was supported by subsequent research at the time.[67][68][69] However, in the following years, researchers such as Timothy Keith, Johannes Rojahn and Alan Kaufman found contradictory results in gender IQ differences with Keith even finding an adult female latent advantage in general factors and Kaufman finding no difference in general intelligence.[70] Keith said that the difference in Lynn's findings can be attributed to not using latent factors to measure their meta-analysis of sex differences. Rojahn's study found the discrepancies between the gender development were smaller than predicted by Lynn and in fact were so small that they have little or no practical importance.[70]

Lynn stated that the intelligence differences between men and women, on average, are slight and that "the real difference only emerges as we rise up the IQ scale to the sort of level that the really top jobs require and as we drop lower down the scale—because men, as it turns out, have a much wider range of intelligence than women." Lynn stated that there were far more men of extremely high intelligence but also far more men of extremely low intelligence than women due to wider range of intelligence. According to Lynn, the reason men are more intelligent than women is evolution: men were the hunters in ancient hunting-gathering societies, so they needed more intellect to successfully hunt animals. Lynn also said evolution gave men and women different kinds of intelligence. He believes men were given superiority in mathematical and spatial reasoning because they needed it to successfully hunt. Women were given high verbal reasoning abilities because it benefited their social interaction with their children while raising them.[71]

Dysgenics and eugenics

Dysgenics

In Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations, Lynn reviewed[72] the history of eugenics, from the early writings of Bénédict Morel and Francis Galton through the rise of eugenics in the early 20th century and its subsequent collapse. He identifies three main concerns of eugenicists such as himself: deterioration in health, intelligence and conscientiousness. Lynn asserts that natural selection in pre-industrial societies favoured traits such as intelligence and character but no longer does so in modern societies. He argues that due to the advance of medicine, selection against those with poor genes for health was relaxed.

Lynn examined sibling studies and concluded that the tendency of children with a high number of siblings to be the least intelligent is evidence of dysgenic fertility. He said there has been a genuine increase in phenotypic intelligence, but that this is caused by environmental factors and is masking a decline in genotypic intelligence.

According to Lynn, those with greater educational achievement have fewer children, while children with lower IQs come from larger families,[73] which he viewed as evidence that intelligence and fertility are negatively correlated. He also believes that socioeconomic status. Lynn agreed with Lewis Terman's comment in 1922 that "children of successful and cultivated parents test higher than children from wretched and ignorant homes for the simple reason that their heredity is better". Lynn claimed that socio-economic status is positively correlated with indicators of conscientiousness such as work ethic and moral values and negatively with crime. Next the genetic basis of differences in conscientiousness is discussed, and Lynn concludes that twin studies provide evidence of a high heritability for the trait. The less conscientious, such as criminals, have more offspring.

Lynn presented counter-arguments, such as the traits discussed are not genetically determined, intelligence and fertility can be inversely related without dysgenics, socio-economic status does not differ genetically, and there is no such thing as a 'bad gene', and dismissed all of the counter-arguments on the basis that the trends he found represent a serious problem, leading him to announce his support of eugenics.

A review of Dysgenics by W. D. Hamilton, Royal Society research professor in evolutionary biology at the University of Oxford, was published posthumously in 2000.[74] Hamilton wrote a lengthy review stating that Lynn, "discussing the large bank of evidence that still accumulates on heritability of aptitudes and differentials of fertility, shows in this book that almost all of the worries of the early eugenicists were well-founded, in spite of the relative paucity of their evidence at the time".

Another review of Dysgenics was written in 2002 by Nicholas Mackintosh, emeritus professor of experimental psychology in the University of Cambridge.[75] Mackintosh wrote that, "with a cavalier disregard for political correctness, he argues that the ideas of the eugenecists were correct and that we ignore them at our peril." While recognising that the book provides a valuable and accurate source of information, he criticised Lynn for "not fully acknowledg[ing] the negative relationship between social class and education on the one hand, and infant mortality and life expectancy on the other." He questioned Lynn's interpretation of data. He also points out that according to Lynn's reading of the theory of natural selection, "if it is true that those with lower IQ and less education are producing more offspring, then they are fitter than those of higher IQ and more education". According to Mackintosh, eugenicist arguments are not based on a "biological imperative, but rather on a particular set of value judgements."

In Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001),[76] Lynn claimed that embryo selection as a form of standard reproductive therapy would raise the average intelligence of the population by 15 IQ points in a single generation (p. 300). If couples produce a hundred embryos, he argues, the range in potential IQ would be around 15 points above and below the parents' IQ. Lynn argues this gain could be repeated each generation, eventually stabilising the population's IQ at a theoretical maximum of around 200 after as little as six or seven generations.

Pioneer Fund

Main article: Pioneer Fund

Lynn currently serves on the board of directors of the Pioneer Fund, and is also on the editorial board of the Pioneer-supported journal Mankind Quarterly, both of which have been the subject of controversy for their dealing with race and intelligence and eugenics, and have been accused of racism, e.g., by Avner Falk and William Tucker.[13][77][78] Lynn's Ulster Institute for Social Research received $609,000 in grants from the Pioneer Fund between 1971 and 1996.[79] On the other hand, Ulrich Neisser writes that "Pioneer has sometimes sponsored useful research—research that otherwise might not have been done at all.[21]"

Lynn's 2001 book The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund[80] is a history and defence of the fund, in which he argues that, for the last sixty years, it has been "nearly the only non-profit foundation making grants for study and research into individual and group differences and the hereditary basis of human nature ... Over those 60 years, the research funded by Pioneer has helped change the face of social science."

Reception

Lynn's work on national differences, including his compilation of a database of national IQ has received favourable comments by many other researchers. Biochemist Gerhard Meisenberg describes him as "prominent protagonist of this approach in recent years".[81] In the Bell Curve, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray describes him as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences".[82] Former president of the Estonian Psychological Association Jüri Allik wrote that "Many of these [cross-cultural studies of personality traits] were inspired by Richard Lynn’s pioneering research and by the sometimes uncomfortable questions he had the courage to ask. The study of national differences in personality have lagged behind similar studies of intelligence, but when influenced by Lynn’s prevailing ideas, they have nevertheless reached a satisfying level of sophistication.[83]" Donald Templer said Lynn "is to intellectual group differences as Charles Darwin is to biology."[84] Richard Lynn’s 1971 book, Personality and National Character has been described as "a breakthrough in the study of national cultures".[85]

Lynn's scientific contributions on the evolution of general intelligence has been described as "significant" by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at London School of Economics.[86]

However, his review work on global racial differences in cognitive ability has been cited for misrepresenting the research of other scientists, and has been criticised for unsystematic methodology and distortion.

David King, the coordinator of the consumer watchdog group Human Genetics Alert, said "we find Richard Lynn's claims that some human beings are inherently superior to others repugnant."[87]

The datum that Lynn and Vanhanen used for the lowest IQ estimate, Equatorial Guinea, was taken from a group of children in a home for the developmentally disabled in Spain.[88] Corrections were applied to adjust for differences in IQ cohorts (the "Flynn" effect) on the assumption that the same correction could be applied internationally, without regard to the cultural or economic development level of the country involved. While there appears to be rather little evidence on cohort effect upon IQ across the developing countries, one study in Kenya (Daley, Whaley, Sigman, Espinosa, & Neumann, 2003) shows a substantially larger cohort effect than is reported for developed countries (p.?)[5]

In a critical review of The Bell Curve, psychologist Leon Kamin faulted Lynn for "disregarding scientific objectivity", "misrepresenting data", and for "racism".[89] Kamin argues that the studies of cognitive ability of Africans in Lynn's meta-analysis cited by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray show strong cultural bias. Kamin also reproached Lynn for concocting IQ values from test scores that have no correlation to IQ.[90] Kamin also notes that Lynn excluded a study that found no difference in White and Black performance, and ignored the results of a study which showed Black scores were higher than White scores.[91]

Journalist Charles Lane criticised Lynn's methodology in his article in the The New York Review of Books, "The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve" (1994).[92] Pioneer Fund president Harry Weyher, Jr. published a response accusing the reviewer of errors and misrepresentation; Lane also replied to this with a rebuttal.[93]

In 2002 an academic dispute arose after Lynn claimed that some races are inherently more psychopathic than others, and other psychologists criticised his data and interpretations.[94][95] Psychologist Leon Kamin has said that "Lynn's distortions and misrepresentations of the data constitute a truly venomous racism, combined with the scandalous disregard for scientific objectivity".[96]

In 2010, on his 80th birthday, Lynn was celebrated with a special issue of Personality and Individual Differences dedicated to his work that was edited by Danish psychologist Helmuth Nyborg with contributions by Nyborg, J. Philippe Rushton, Satoshi Kanazawa and several others.[97]

Lynn says he want to be remembered this way: "some loved him, some hated him, but everyone accepted that he kept the faith and told the truth as he saw it".[27]

Controversial statements

Lynn is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in their extremist files as a white nationalist.[96] The SPLC has kept a record of Lynn's controversial statements, for example, in a 2011 interview with neo-Nazi Alex Kurtajic, Lynn stated, "I am deeply pessimistic about the future of the European peoples because mass immigration of third world peoples will lead to these becoming majorities in the United States and westernmost Europe during the present century. I think this will mean the destruction of European civilization in these countries."[96] In 1995, Lynn was quoted by the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) saying, "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the ‘phasing out’ of such peoples...Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality."[98]

FAIR also quoted Lynn as stating:

I think the only solution lies in the breakup of the United States. Blacks and Hispanics are concentrated in the Southwest, the Southeast and the East, but the Northwest and the far Northeast, Maine, Vermont and upstate New York have a large predominance of whites. I believe these predominantly white states should declare independence and secede from the Union. They would then enforce strict border controls and provide minimum welfare, which would be limited to citizens. If this were done, white civilization would survive within this handful of states."
— Richard Lynn interview with controversial magazine Right NOW![96]

The SPLC stated that "Since the 1970s, Richard Lynn has been working tirelessly to place race, genes, and IQ at the center of discussions surrounding inequality. Through his own writings and those published by his Ulster Institute for Social Research, in Northern Ireland, Lynn argues that members of different races and nations possess innate differences in intelligence and behavior, and that these are responsible for everything from the incarceration rate of black Americans to the poverty of developing nations. Lynn is also an ethnic nationalist who believes that countries must "remain racially homogenous" in order to flourish" The center has also stated that "Lynn uses his authority as professor (emeritus) of psychology at the University of Ulster to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people."[96]

Works

Notes

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  5. 1 2 3 Hunt, E; Wittmann, W (2008). "National intelligence and national prosperity". Intelligence. 36 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2006.11.002.
  6. 1 2 Kamin, Leon. "Behind the Bell Curve" (PDF). Scientific American. p. 100. Lynn's distortions and misrepresentations of the data constitute a truly venomous racism, combined with the scandalous disregard for scientific objectivity
  7. ↑ Ahmed, Rabia (19 Apr 2014), Forget polio, Pakistan is ‘BIGGER’ than India and size is all that matters!, retrieved 1 Jun 2016
  8. 1 2 Valone, David A. (2002). "Richard Lynn: Eugenics: A Reassessment, review". Isis. 93 (3): 534. doi:10.1086/374143.
  9. ↑ Gottfredson, Linda (13 December 1994), "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", Wall Street Journal, p. A18
  10. ↑ Intelligence, Elsevier
  11. ↑ Personality and Individual Differences, Elsevier
  12. 1 2 Kincheloe, Joe L. (1997), Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 39
  13. 1 2 3 Tucker, William H. (2002), The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, University of Illinois Press, p. 2
  14. ↑ Velden, Manfred (2010). Biologism-: The Consequence of an Illusion. V&R unipress GmbH. p. 118.
  15. ↑ Wilson, Carter A. (1996). Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism. SAGE. p. 229. At best Lynn's approach is racial propaganda or biased research driven by a strong prejudice against blacks and a strong need to believe in their genetic inferiority. At worst, Lynn's research arises out of a malicious and dishonest effort to demonstrate the genetic inferiority of blacks
  16. ↑ Barnett, Susan M.; Williams, Wendy (2004). "National Intelligence and The Emperor's New Clothes.". PsycCRITIQUES. 49 (4): 389–396. doi:10.1037/004367. Among this book's strengths are that it argues for a point of view unpopular within the scientific community, it relies on hard data to make its points, its organization and clarity. Also, the book is expansive in its thinking and argumentation. All of these strengths considered, however, we believe that the arguments advanced in the book are flawed by an omnipresent logical fallacy and confusion of correlation with causation that undermines the foundation of the book.
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  20. ↑ Ferber, Abby L. (2012). Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism. Routledge.
  21. 1 2 Neisser, Ulric (2004). "Serious Scientists or Disgusting Racists?". PsycCRITIQUES. 49 (1): 5–7. doi:10.1037/004224.
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  26. ↑ Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
  27. 1 2 3 Nyborg, Helmuth (July 2012). "A conversation with Richard Lynn". Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (2): 79–84. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.033.
  28. ↑ Lynn, Richard (Winter 1974). "Review: A New Morality from Science: Beyondism". Irish Journal of Psychology. 2 (#3).
  29. ↑ Kurtagic, Alex. "Interview with Richard Lynn". Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  30. ↑ Woodley, Michael A. (July 2012). "A life history model of the Lynn–Flynn effect". Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (2): 152–156. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.028.
  31. ↑ Flynn, James R. (November 2013). "The "Flynn Effect" and Flynn's paradox". Intelligence. 41 (6): 851–857. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2013.06.014.
  32. ↑ Boyle, Gregory J.; Saklofske, Donald H.; Matthews, Gerald (5 March 2012). "Introduction: Intelligence Measurement and Assessment". In Boyle, Gregory J; Saklofske, Donald H; Matthews, Gerald. Psychological Assessment. 1: Intelligence Assessment. SAGE Publications. pp. xiii–xxix, xxviii. ISBN 978-0-85702-270-7. Retrieved 4 September 2013. Lay summary (4 September 2013). The question of whether human kind is becoming more intelligent as a function of such factors as improved nutrition, better health, and increased education has become known as the Flynn Effect.
  33. ↑ Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas (13 June 2011). Personality and Individual Differences. Wiley. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-4051-9927-8. Retrieved 15 June 2014. Flynn effect The finding by sociologist James Flynn that there are generational increases in IQ across nations.
  34. ↑ Flanagan, Dawn P.; Kaufman, Alan S. (2009). Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment. Essentials of Psychological Assessment (2nd ed.). Hoboken (NJ): Wiley. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-470-18915-3. Lay summary (19 May 2013). It is not unusual for the Flynn effect (Flynn, 1987) and statistical regression to the mean to lead to lower scores for an extreme scoring group upon retesting with a new cognitive measure.
  35. ↑ Fletcher, Richard B.; Hattie, John (11 March 2011). Intelligence and Intelligence Testing. Taylor & Francis. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-136-82321-3. Retrieved 31 August 2013. Lay summary (15 September 2013). Indeed, this effect, now called the 'Flynn effect', is well established. Nations, almost without exception, have shown gains of about 20 IQ points per generation (30 years).
  36. ↑ Freeman, Joan (2010). Gifted Lives: What Happens when Gifted Children Grow Up. London: Routledge. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-0-415-47009-4. Lay summary (16 May 2013). A strange new phenomenon has been growing since about 1950, called the 'Flynn Effect' after Professor James Flynn of the University of Otago, New Zealand. In his book What is Intelligence ?, Flynn describes a year-on-year rise in measured intelligence, about three IQ points a decade. Yet while advanced countries may even be reaching a plateau by now, developing countries have yet to see it at all.
  37. ↑ Johnson, Wendy (2012). "How Much Can We Boost IQ? An Updated Look at Jensen's (1969) Question and Answer". In Slater, Alan M.; Quinn, Paul C. Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies. Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies. Thousand Oaks (CA): SAGE. pp. 118–131, 125–126. ISBN 978-0-85702-757-3. Lay summary (19 May 2013). Though the Raven is still regarded by many as a very pure indicator of general intelligence, this now seems very unlikely given the observation since 1969 of what is now known as the Flynn Effect (Flynn, 1987). This is the robust observation that, throughout the 20th century, scores on intelligence tests of all kinds rose throughout the world, on average about three IQ points per decade. There have been differences in the rate of gain by type of test and region of the world, but the overall pattern of consistent gains has held.
  38. ↑ Kaufman, Alan S. (2009). IQ Testing 101. New York: Springer Publishing. pp. 202–203. ISBN 978-0-8261-0629-2. Lay summary (10 August 2010). The Flynn Effect James Flynn (1984) made the intriguing discovery that the IQs of Americans increased, on average, by 3 points peer decade. Children and adults in the United States performed better on IQ tests from generation to generation at a steady, predictable rate.
  39. ↑ Mackintosh, N. J. (2011). IQ and Human Intelligence (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-19-958559-5. Retrieved 15 June 2014. Subsequent research, documented and summarized by Flynn (1984, 1987, 2007; see also Neisser, 1998) has shown that these studies actually underestimated the true rate of increase in test scores. It is now clear that average test scores increased at a remarkable rate in most industrialized societies throughout the twentieth century—a finding now known as the Flynn effect.
  40. ↑ Urbina, Susana (2004). Essentials of Psychological Testing. John Wiley & Sons. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-471-41978-5. Lay summary (10 October 2013). A puzzling longitudinal trend in the opposite direction, known as the 'Flynn effect,' has been well documented in successive revisions of major intelligence tests (like the S-B and the Wechsler scales) that invariably involve the administration of both the old and new versions to a segment of the newer standardization sample, for comparative purposes. Data from revisions of various intelligence tests in the United States as well as in other countries—extensively analyzed by J.R. Flynn (1984, 1987)—show a pronounced, longterm upward trend in the level of performance required to obtain any given IQ score.
  41. ↑ Jones, Garett (2015). Hive Mind: How Your Nation s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own. Stanford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780804785969. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  42. ↑ te Nijenhuis, Jan; Cho, Sun Hee; Murphy, Raegan; Lee, Kun Ho (July 2012). "The Flynn effect in Korea: Large gains". Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (2): 147–151. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.022.
  43. ↑ Voracek, Martin (5 April 2006). "Phlogiston, fluid intelligence, and the Lynn–Flynn effect". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29 (02). doi:10.1017/s0140525x06389030.
  44. ↑ Richard Lynn, reply by Charles Lane (2 February 1995) ‘The Bell Curve’ and Its Sources The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 10 January 2014
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