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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (31894)	4/19/2003 2:26:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Malcolm, members.shaw.ca There are heaps of links in Google. It's not a theory untested in reality. The Flynn Effect is real. <Below are the rates of IQ gain per year for different locations as found by James R. Flynn in Massive IQ Gains in 14 Nations: What IQ Tests Really Measure, Psychological Bulletin, 1987, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 171-191. The tables are adapted from Table 15 of that paper. In culturally reduced (non-verbal) tests there is minimal reliance on learned content. Other tests only assess verbal (learned) IQ. But the most famous tests examine both. For example, the Wechsler tests have both a ‘Performance’ scale and a ‘Verbal’ scale . Flynn found the highest gains in the culturally reduced tests. The lowest gains were in verbal tests. > Maybe a few presidents had good speech writers. We are considering averages and distribution, not anecdotes about a few bright people who specialized in language. Mqurice