>Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:28:02 -0500 (EST)
>From: Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: TIPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Group Differences in Intelligence
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>On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote:
>
>> I attempted to send this once already but it apparently got lost in
>> cyberspace.
>>
>> The January (vol.54, #1) issue of American Psychologist has a
>> fascinating article by James Flynn (of Flynn effect fame) titled
>> Searching for Justice: The Discovery of IQ Gains Over Time. He
examines
>> the growth in IQ scores over time and the implications of this growth
>> for heritability of intelligence and group differences in IQ. He
also
>> discusses the meritocracy argument of Hernstein and Murray. The
article
>> is quite interesting and thought-provoking, although, probably
because
>> of space limitation, hard to follow (at least for me) in a few
places.
>> I highly recommend it.
>>
>
> How is intelligence defined?
>
>Michael Sylvester
>
This is actually one of the central issues of the article. Does the
intelligence test really measure intelligence. I believe he comes down
on the "no" side of this question.
Jeff Nagelbush
Ferris State University
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