brain plasticity: IQ is rising (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 21, 2015, 17:54 (3564 days ago) @ David Turell

With more education and stimulation:-http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-questions-we-should-ask-about-intelligence-1424275812?KEYWORDS=Gopnik-"Take IQ again. James Flynn, at New Zealand's University of Otago, and others have shown that absolute IQ scores have been steadily and dramatically increasing, by as much as three points a decade. (The test designers have to keep making the questions harder to keep the average at 100).-"The best explanation is that we have consciously transformed our society into a world where schools are ubiquitous. So even though genes contribute to whatever IQ scores measure, IQ can change radically as a result of changes in environment. Abstract thinking and a thirst for knowledge might once have been a genetic quirk. In a world of schools, they become the human inheritance."