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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (480739)10/4/2021 9:22:29 PM
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<,Message #480739 from cosmicforce at 10/4/2021 5:57:44 PM

Here's what Flynn himself calls out in non-support of the "we are getting smarter" interpretation of his own work. He didn't come up the term "Flynn Effect" - coined by the authors of The Bell Curve - he would have credited the first person to have made the observation, Reed Tuddenham.

psychometrics.cam.ac.uk

From the man himself:

I also wish to underline that if we want to write the cognitive history of the 20th century, rising IQ is at most half the story. There are other intellectual qualities, namely, critical acumen and wisdom, that IQ tests were not designed to measure and do not measure and these are equally worthy of attention. Our obsession with IQ is one indication that rising wisdom has not characterized our time.


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