Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century

Cover
......Page 1
Are We Getting Smarter?......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Boxes......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
1 Opening windows......Page 17
The evidence and its peculiarities......Page 0
A pause to make a point......Page 24
Two kinds of significance......Page 26
Similarities and Raven’s......Page 28
IQ trends and the real world......Page 32
Trends test by test......Page 37
Measuring intelligence versus historical narrative......Page 39
The theory of intelligence......Page 44
Closing windows......Page 47
3 Developing nations......Page 48
Parasites versus the Ice Ages......Page 49
The developed world......Page 52
The Dutch......Page 56
Top and bottom of the curve......Page 57
IQ and height......Page 58
Raven’s data from Britain......Page 59
The Coloured Progressive Matrices results......Page 60
The Standard Progressive Matrices results......Page 61
The merged data......Page 63
Summary on nutrition......Page 67
Hybrid vigor......Page 68
Health and class......Page 69
Kenya (IQ 72)......Page 71
Saudi Arabia (IQ 84)......Page 72
Dominica (IQ 82)......Page 74
Turkey (IQ 90)......Page 75
Sudan (IQ 71)......Page 77
Brazil (IQ 87)......Page 79
China (IQ 105)......Page 80
The twenty-first century......Page 81
Death a lottery......Page 82
Daubert motions......Page 84
The distinction between tests and their norms......Page 86
Adjusting obsolete IQ scores......Page 88
Analysis of gains from the WAIS to the WAIS-IV......Page 91
The rate of 0.300 points per year revisited......Page 93
The WAIS and other tests......Page 96
Something new about the very bottom of the curve......Page 97
Individuals and groups......Page 98
Playing the game......Page 99
The present state of play......Page 100
Something new about the top of the curve......Page 104
Other times, other places......Page 105
Tip of the iceberg......Page 107
Scandal in the literature......Page 110
Political debate......Page 111
Vocabulary trends since 1950......Page 114
Vocabulary and tertiary education......Page 115
Active versus passive vocabulary......Page 119
Parents talking to teenagers......Page 122
Trends from youth to old age......Page 123
The WAIS and its four indexes......Page 124
Bright bonuses and bright taxes......Page 127
Cross-sectional and longitudinal data......Page 130
Confidence limits......Page 133
Simulating cohorts......Page 135
Causes......Page 138
What we know about the brain......Page 141
Pointers......Page 143
Ignorance and puzzles......Page 144
The significance of g-loadings......Page 148
History of a debate......Page 150
The Flynn effect mantra......Page 152
Status of the race and IQ debate......Page 153
Comments on Rushton and Jensen......Page 154
Summary on race......Page 156
g and gender......Page 157
University samples......Page 159
What does the data say?......Page 160
Students at a magnet school......Page 162
Students in general......Page 163
Argentina......Page 165
New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa......Page 168
Estonia......Page 170
Israel......Page 172
Men and women and genes......Page 173
Hole to the center of the earth......Page 174
(1) The mystique of the brain......Page 175
(2) The mystique of g......Page 180
(3) The mystique of measurement......Page 181
(4) The tale of the twins......Page 183
(5) The triumph of the elite......Page 186
(6) The history of nutrition in Britain......Page 189
(7) The history of urbanization in Turkey......Page 190
(9) Intelligence and intelligences......Page 191
(10) Intelligence is not über alles......Page 192
(11) The intellectual inferiority of university women......Page 193
(12) The “psychotic” attitude of black women toward marriage......Page 194
(13) The dull are violent......Page 195
There are people there......Page 197
8 Progress and puzzles......Page 199
Appendix I: Tables and comments on IQ trends......Page 206
Appendix II: Tables and comments relevant to capital cases and comparing the WAIS-III IQs of various nations......Page 253
Appendix III: Tables and comments relevant to adult/child IQ trends and bright taxes/bonuses......Page 261
Appendix IV: Tables and comments relevant to gender and Raven’s......Page 275
Appendix V: Wonderful paper on causes of Raven’s gains......Page 300
References......Page 304
Subject index......Page 321
Name index......Page 324