Re: Flynn Effect explained?

From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 12:48:50 MDT


In a message dated 4/22/01 11:43:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
steve365@btinternet.com cites:
I think you need to introduce the notion that technology is making the
>world inherently more stimulating. It's not that people are choosing
>more challenges, it's that the world is a more challenging place.
 
    The book THE BELL CURVE I believe suggests a different cause. According
to that book along about 1900 the economy had become high tech enough that it
began sweeping up all the High IQ types to serve it's needs. According to
TBC the congregation of the GT (the upper 5% or the IQ curve) has accelerated
all through the 20th century.
    It seems to me this phenomena might explain the Flynn effect.
Ron H.



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