Malcolm Gladwell - If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate, what explains th... - 0 views
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Amira . on 23 Jan 10"One Saturday in November of 1984, James Flynn, a social scientist at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, received a large package in the mail. It was from a colleague in Utrecht, and it contained the results of I.Q. tests given to two generations of Dutch eighteen-year-olds. When Flynn looked through the data, he found something puzzling. The Dutch eighteen-year-olds from the nineteen-eighties scored better than those who took the same tests in the nineteen-fifties-and not just slightly better, much better."