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Table of ContentsHuman Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.”If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain has

a- Recently, VDARE.com’s Lance Welton cited my work when suggesting that a general decline in intelligence—among whites, quite apart from the immigration of lower IQ races—was one reason for the disgraceful jury verdict in the Derek Chauvin show trial. People often react incredulously when told of this IQ decline: “Haven’t you heard of the Flynn Effect? The Flynn Effect shows that IQ scores are rising and that we are becoming more intelligent!” Those who say things like this—such as Angela Saini in her book Intelligence is the ability to solve cognitive problems. The quicker y...

The New York Times finally gets around to running an obituary for James Flynn, the most important leftist intelligence researcher of the last half century, who died December 11 of the last year. Similarly, it took the Times a long time to print an Arthur Jensen obituary. Unlike Jensen’s, however, now that this one is finally here, it’s pretty good: A philosopher who moved into psychology and studied I.Q., he showed that as society grows more technical, human intellectual abilities expand to meet the challenge. James R. Flynn in 2016. His research helped discredit the theory that differe...

Nothing, it seems, had changed. Those facts, however, disguise a surprising truth. IQ tests are based on scaled scores. That is: the student’s  raw test score is translated into an IQ score according to a formula. And — here’s the key part — that formula is readjusted every ten years. So: the reason that average IQ scores haven’t changed is that  the formula has changed to keep the average at 100. A lot. Raw scores on the underlying test have gone considerably over the history over the test. If our grandparents’ raw scores were translated according to today’s formula, their...

Peter Grace writes about Otago academic Jim Flynn after his death 13 Dec, 2020 09:29 PM 7 minutes to read University of Otago Emeritus Prof Jim Flynn, pictured in 2016, has died. Photo / Gerard O'Brien University of Otago Emeritus Prof Jim Flynn, pictured in 2016, has died. Photo / Gerard O'Brien NZ Herald By: Peter Grace Professor Jim Flynn, who has died, had a zelig-like relationship with the 20th century and was an important figure in the history of the University of Otago, the politics department in particular. I was lucky enough to know him and want to tell you some true, and some maybe...