Flynn Effect

Case Incident 1: The Flynn Effect

Question 1. Do you believe people are really getting smarter? Why or why not?

Answer: Yes, I really believe that people are getting smarter.

In my opinion, I believe people are getting smarter because of the intellectual ability. The Flynneffect is the name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scoresmeasured in many parts of the world. It is not easy to answer this question without having a deepknowledge about it. In my opinion, people are really getting smarter as compare to their relationsor intellectual ability.

It’s the capacity to do mental activities, such as thinking, reasoning, a

nd problem solving. There are many factors that can prove my ides, such as computers, robots,skyscraper buildings, satellites and so on. To build or create such a kind of amazing things weneed smart people. I am not going to say that the people who lived in the past were not smart. Iam just going to say that as compare to past, nowadays people are getting smarter. Today we arenot just studying only one subject; we are studying multiple subjects and fields. There are manynew subjects come up by time passes. Today we have many opportunities for studying, becausenew technologies can help us to study more efficiently. For instance, computer and internetforces people to think more abstractly. Whatever we need we can find from internet within fewseconds.

In most of the developed world, more people are now in school for longer, and teaching methods have evolved, moving away from the simple memorizing of names, dates and facts. It seems like a reasonable assumption that education is training people to think better.

People are using different technologies to solve their problems than their ancestors; like they can use their smart phone to search google to know about anything. Thus they can increase their knowledge.

Students become used to the pressure of tests and they pick up examination-room tactics that...