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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 173.20-3.3%Nov 6 3:59 PM EST
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To: S100 who wrote (2977)6/2/2001 9:12:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn   of 12231
 
*** The Flynn Effect *** Why The New Paradigm is only just getting going. Apart from all the synergy of the interconnecting inventions such as lasers feeding optical fibre feeding Gallium Arsenide feeding the internet, we also have The Flynn Effect, which is the rapidly increasing IQ around the world.

pcp.lanl.gov

<... Flynn himself admits that he is baffled by the results, and that he finds it hard to believe that his generation is significantly more intelligent than the one of his parents. He proposes the following argument. Compared to the previous generation, the number of people who score high enough to be classified as "genius" has increased more than 20 times. This means that we should now be witnessing, in Flynn's own words, "a cultural renaissance too great to be overlooked". Because he finds this conclusion implausible, he suggests that wat has risen is not intelligence itself but some kind of "abstract problem solving ability". But if we look at the ever accelerating production of scientific discoveries, technological innovations and cultural developments in general, the "cultural renaissance" does not seem such an absurd idea anymore. And whether you call the factor that rises "intelligence" or "abstract problem solving ability", the conclusion that people have become intellectually more capable remains the same. >

With 20x as many really smart people, with increases across all intelligence ranges, we can expect no end of developments.

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