Quadrant, April 1st, 2001
THE UNIVERSITY of Otago's Emeritus Professor of Politics, James Flynn, has never been one to heed advice to stick to his last, with the result that he has made lasting contributions to a number of areas outside political theory as narrowly conceived. Most famously, the "Flynn effect" is named for him, referring to his discovery of a large, clearly non-genetically controlled, increase in the intelligence quotients of peoples around the world over the last few decades. This has proved an enormous spanner in the works of IQ testing, especially for those defending a strongly hereditarian view of i...
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