UID:
almafu_9959238693602883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-09024-8
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1-139-57977-0
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1-139-23567-2
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1-107-25479-5
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1-139-56939-2
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1-139-57120-6
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1-139-57295-4
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1-283-63772-3
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1-139-57029-3
Content:
The 'Flynn effect' is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have significantly increased from one generation to the next over the past century. Flynn now brings us an exciting new book which aims to make sense of this rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society. Are We Getting Smarter? features fascinating new material on a variety of topics including the effects of intelligence in the developing world; the impact of rising IQ scores on the death penalty, cognitive ability in old age and the language abilities of youth culture; as well as controversial topics of race and gender. He ends with the message that assessing IQ goes astray if society is ignored. As IQ scores continue to rise into the twenty-first century, particularly in the developing world, the 'Flynn effect' marches on.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Are We Getting Smarter?; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Opening windows; A pause to make a point; Two kinds of significance; Similarities and Raven's; IQ trends and the real world; Trends test by test; Measuring intelligence versus historical narrative; The theory of intelligence; Closing windows; 3 Developing nations; Parasites versus the Ice Ages; The developed world; Requiem for nutrition; The Dutch; Top and bottom of the curve; IQ and height; Norway and two kinds of nutrition; Raven's data from Britain
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The Coloured Progressive Matrices resultsThe Standard Progressive Matrices results; The merged data; Summary on nutrition; Hybrid vigor; Health and class; The developing world; Kenya (IQ 72); Saudi Arabia (IQ 84); Dominica (IQ 82); Turkey (IQ 90); Sudan (IQ 71); Brazil (IQ 87); China (IQ 105); The twenty-first century; 4 Death, memory, and politics; Death a lottery; Daubert motions; The distinction between tests and their norms; Adjusting obsolete IQ scores; Analysis of gains from the WAIS to the WAIS-IV; The rate of 0.300 points per year revisited; The WAIS and other tests
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Something new about the very bottom of the curveIndividuals and groups; Playing the game; The present state of play; Something new about the top of the curve; Other times, other places; Tip of the iceberg; Scandal in the literature; Political debate; 5 Youth and age; Vocabulary trends since 1950; Vocabulary and tertiary education; Active versus passive vocabulary; Parents talking to teenagers; Trends from youth to old age; The WAIS and its four indexes; Bright bonuses and bright taxes; Cross-sectional and longitudinal data; Progressivity of the bright tax; Confidence limits
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Simulating cohortsCauses; What we know about the brain; Pointers; Ignorance and puzzles; 6 Race and gender; The significance of g-loadings; History of a debate; The Flynn effect mantra; Status of the race and IQ debate; Comments on Rushton and Jensen; Summary on race; g and gender; University samples; What does the data say?; Students at a magnet school; Students in general; Argentina; New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa; Estonia; Israel; Men and women and genes; Hole to the center of the earth; 7 The sociological imagination; (1) The mystique of the brain; (2) The mystique of g
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(3) The mystique of measurement(4) The tale of the twins; (5) The triumph of the elite; (6) The history of nutrition in Britain; (7) The history of urbanization in Turkey; (8) The history of teenage subculture; (9) Intelligence and intelligences; (10) Intelligence is not über alles; (11) The intellectual inferiority of university women; (12) The "psychotic" attitude of black women toward marriage; (13) The dull are violent; (14) The dull drive cars; There are people there; 8 Progress and puzzles; Appendix I: Tables and comments on IQ trends
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Appendix II: Tables and comments relevant to capital cases and comparing the WAIS-III IQs of various nations
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-02809-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-60917-8
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235679
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235679
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