More popular press Flynn Effect coverage

By IQ scores, kids smarter these days
By FRANK GREVE / Knight Ridder Newspapers

• WASHINGTON
  — If judged solely by their IQ scores, today’s kids are smarter than
  any generation since testing began — so smart that many of their
  great-grandparents would have been found mentally deficient by today’s
  standards.....

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However, take the article with a hugh grain of salt. As I reported at last Decembers ISIR conference, new research (with more comprehensive measures of intelligence and more sophisticated statistical methodology) is suggesting that the Flynn Effect may have stopped and may be only occuring on very narrow abilities. The paper ISIR presented by Jelte Wicherts et al was clearly one of the presentations that caught the attention of the serious intelligence scholars who published in the rarified air of the journal Intelligence. Word from the invisible university network is that a new round of critical arguements for, and against, the Flynn Effect are bubbling among the major players. Stay tunned. It is going to get interesting.



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