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The Flynn effect does not mean that people today are smarter than people in previous generations.
by MrBuddyCasino 2y ago
The Flynn effect does not mean that people today are smarter than people in previous generations.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoWell, it kind of does. Can you be more specific in your criticism? Are you saying IQ isn't equal to smart, or even raw IQ type scores without the cohort based adjustments isn't equal to smart, or something else? I'd kind of agree with both of those, but not sure if that's were you're going with this. I was commenting in the context of "IQ has gone down for a growing subgroup over 8 decades" and suggesting that the Flynn effect means that any member of the modern subgroup teleported back in time would score on average about 25 points better, which reverses the factoid in the headline even before you talk about the group growing larger.