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What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

• pg 19y ago
  Any book in which the author introduces a concept named after himself is probably not good.
  • ivankirigin 19y ago
    The term was in common usage before this book was written. I'm not sure if it was coined by him or others in response to his earlier research. Here is his faculty page: http://www.otago.ac.nz/politicalstudies/jim_flynn.html http://www.otago.ac.nz/politicalstudies/jim_flynn.html The wikipedia page is also good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
    • pg 19y ago
      introduces -> mentions
      • ivankirigin 19y ago
        To a certain extent I agree. Researchers shouldn't be big self promoters in this fashion -- reasons I don't like the attitudes of Wolfram or Kamen, despite their excellent work. The ideas should be the message. But there is substance in Flynn's work.
  • aston 19y ago
    "Beyond" the Flynn effect. He acknowledges the term, not introduces it.