Talk:Flynn effect
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Could it be that more and more people are getting training in doing in doing IQ tests? I read somewhere that there is a noticeable increase in the result from the 1st test you take to the 3rd one. Probably you learn to think like the test or something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.224.96.198 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 14 May 2004
- I think that is true, people are learning the way of the tests. Once I came across the following question. Which one is the odd one out: Train, Plane, Steamboat, Car, Bus. Ok, Trains can only move on tracks, Planes can move in 3 dimensions, steamboats move in water, cars are small and buses have commercials all over them. So which one is it? In the end it was the car, but with no explanation. But after a few of these you can probably figure out what the test writers were thinking. I guess people are figuring out the mindset of the people who made the tests. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.39.143.47 (talk • contribs) 08:54, 16 May 2004
- Remember, this is not an effect of the same people retaking the test, but changes in the average scores in a population across generations. I.E. If the 18 year olds averaged 100 on a test in 1948, the 18 year olds now might average 128 on the same test. Now perhaps we are all exposed to more testing, but remember, this effect has occured dramatically in even the last 20 years. Has the average persons exposure to standardized IQ tests changed that much since 1985? It's a puzzle... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.34.133.19 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 27 April 2005
- On the question above, I think it'd be the car, because it is the only one that you yourself are in control of. I don't know about exposure to IQ tests (I think I've taken two or so...) but standardized testing itself has exploded, with many students taking multiple AP, SAT I/II, ACT and even graduation tests in only four years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Finnegar (talk • contribs) 23:40, 24 January 2007
- This, to me, is the greatest weakness of any IQ test which includes this sort of question. As a mathematician will tell you, there are an infinite number of ways to describe any finite series. More broadly, questions along the lines of "which doesn't belong," or "which is the next in the sequence," unless they are so simple as to be nondeterminitive, don't have "right" answers. Even the "best" answer is often considerably more subjective than the author of the test may think it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.183.199 (talk • contribs) 16:08, 8 July 2007
Original research ?
I don't know if it has been emphasized by some scientist(s) but IMO :
- the expense in education in many third-world countries were considerable (I have no serious datas yet),
- the progress in communications is simply incredible : It's not a secret on Wikipedia that I spent some time in Burkina Faso around 1986. In 14 month I could phone my mother once! Just click on http://www.cenatrin.bf/ to verify that the volume of information you can exchange has increased. --Ericd 20:36, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Lead pipes?
I'm surprised that there is no contribution from the gradual elimination of lead pipes in the water supplies. Obviously, this would be OK, so we can't write about it...is there perhaps a source showing that this is NOT the cause?
Given the link between lead levels and IQ...and the undoubted fact that we're eliminating lead pipes - how can this not be a part of the discussion?
SteveBaker (talk) 20:21, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Removal of Rindermann source
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The Rindermann paper that just got removed does not have anything to do with race; it's only about generational effects on intelligence. It also was published in a different journal from the paper that was discussed here, in Personality and individual differences as opposed to Frontiers in psychology. Is the assumption here that papers by Rindermann (and perhaps also Rushton, Lynn, and te Nijenhuis, who are also cited in this article) aren't reliable sources even when they write about general human intelligence topics, such as the Flynn effect? 2600:1004:B156:7169:2C73:E9DD:5034:A6B5 (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Aha, you're right that it is a different survey. But no, none of Rindermans's surveys of "expert opinion" are methodologically sound. I would argue that none of them are reliable sources for what they claim to report on, i.e. expert opinion. So per WP:ONUS we'll need to establish a clear consensus that this material belongs in the article before it can be re-added. Generalrelative (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2021 (UTC)