Bbrown Btm8104-8 Data 4

BBrown BTM8104-8 Data 4

Bryan K. Brown

NorthCentral University

BTM8104-8

Author Note

What Is Intelligence Beyond the Flynn Effect

By James R. Flynn

The Flynn Effect is well known over the past generations in the scientific world,

specifically in the area of intelligence. Flynn’s theory has emphasized the intelligence quotient

(IQ) which has risen over generations due to each generation being successful. I believe that

generations are getting smarter through a verity of ways. Within the generations are the races

which I believe to be broken down economically and racial among the groups. The Flynn Effect

was to administer the standard IQ test to various generations. Mr. Flynn believed by do this that

“all the races are equal in intelligence” (United Nations, 1950; also Flynn, 1999) and fervently

want to erase the black-white IQ gap.

Flynn believes that each generation is effected by the using your abstract mind, by using

your abstract mind your better able to assimilate ideas. I agree with the Flynn Effect that a

generation that is older will have a hard time with current technology as opposed to someone

who is of the current generation or born into the current generation and raised with the new

technology. An increase in scores for the generation of today is due impart to maturity, kids

mature much sooner, physical and mentally (Sarich, 1999). 

Table 1 (Terman et al., 1973) shows Flynn Effect changes in average IQ scores.

Table 1

Estimates of the average 1972 IQ scores when the 1972 Stanford-Binet test performance is referenced to the 1937 norms.

Looking at the IQ scores on the chart that happen between ages 2-0 and 4-6 this shows evidence

that Flynn’s maturation process has cause a large increase in IQ scores of American children.

Scores that fall between ages 3-6 and 10-0 tin to fall and rise much faster than the younger ages

of 2-0 and 4-6. A second acceleration also begins at age 11-0. If we...