Below is the source and part of the abstract of an article by James
Flynn who done extensive work on questions of IQ and nature/nurture.
I came away from reading this article with enormous respect for
Flynn and a better understanding of the issues involved. The
article is well worth searching out. I would post it here if
I could, but that would definitely be unethical, so those
interested will need to get a look from a local library.
I will try to obtain Flynn's email address if anyone cannot
get access to the American Psychologist which ought to be
pretty accessible.
mike
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Flynn, James R.
Searching for justice: The discovery of IQ gains over time.
American Psychologist, 1999 Jan, v54 (n1):5-20.
AT: UCSD SSH BF 1 A55 Current Shelves-Bound in Stacks
1- (1946- ). Currently received.
Abstract: Humane-egalitarian ideals, whose aims are group justice and reducing
environmental inequality and privilege, must be tested against reality, as
revealed by psychology and other social sciences. Four issues are
addressed: the equation between IQ and intelligence, whether group
potential is determined by a group's mean IQ, whether the Black-White IQ
gap is genetic, and the meritocratic thesis that genes for IQ will become
highly correlated with class. Massive IQ gains over time test the
IQ-intelligence equation, reveal groups who achieve far beyond their mean
IQs, and falsify prominent arguments for a genetic racial IQ gap.
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