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What is intelligence?

We are about as smart as we are going to get. So said James Flynn in a recent lecture to the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce(UK). James Flynn, after whom the Flynn Effect was named, is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand and author of the recently published What is Intelligence—Beyond the Flynn Effect.

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Are we getting smarter or dumber?

After years on the increase, average intelligence test performance could be in decline. That’s according to Thomas Teasdale and David Owen who took advantage of the Danish tradition of testing the intelligence of all 18-year-old men being considered for conscription into military service.

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