What is intelligence? Beyond the Flynn effect

By Jelte M. Wicherts. 2008

368 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/edaffeff690bcf86b4c41a1895567b8db7beb1dd

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. James J. Heckman
2. Tim Kautz
3. Dimitri van der Linden
4. E. Dutton
5. Richard Lynn
6. H.L.J. van der Maas
7. Jelte M. Wicherts
8. Conor V. Dolan

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. James J. Heckman
2. Tim Kautz
3. Jelte M. Wicherts
4. H.L.J. van der Maas
5. Conor V. Dolan
6. Richard Lynn
7. Dimitri van der Linden
8. E. Dutton

In Social Psychology

1. James J. Heckman
2. Tim Kautz
3. Richard Lynn
4. Dimitri van der Linden
5. E. Dutton
6. H.L.J. van der Maas
7. Conor V. Dolan
8. Jelte M. Wicherts

Citations in the corpus

• One Hundred Years of Elementary School Mathematics in the United States: A Content Analysis and Cognitive Assessment of Textbooks From 1900 to 2000 (2010, neutral): “As shown in the analysis of mental test performance over the 20th century, ability levels of aspects of cognitive functioning that support general reasoning and conceptual problem-solving processes have been increasing monotonically, and the results here suggest that schooling plays a central role i”
• The negative Flynn Effect: A systematic literature review (2016, methodology): “More recently, the Flynn Effect was further evidenced by calculations of IQ score gains between 1972 and 2006 on versions of the Stanford-Binet (SB), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) (Flynn, 2009).”
• Does intelligence foster generalized trust? An empirical test using the UK birth cohort studies (2010, background): “‘Flynn effect’ amounts to around 3 points per decade (Flynn, 2007).”
• A systematic literature review of the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans (2010, background): “Specifically, Flynn (1987, 2007) has shown that IQ levels have increased considerably in the developedworld over the course of the twentieth century.”
• Variation in Raven's Progressive Matrices scores across time and place (2009, neutral): “Both synchronic and diachronic evidence for variation of Raven test scores has been presented (Flynn, 1987, 2007; Lynn, 1982).”
• The Measure of Intelligence (2019, neutral): “To use a well-known cross-domain analogy [25]: much like “intelligence”, the notion of “physical fitness” (as it pertains to sports and other physical activities) is an intuitivelyunderstandable, informal, yet useful concept.”
• Hard evidence on soft skills (2012, background): “4 Many call this “IQ”, e.g., Flynn (2007), Nisbett (2009), and Nisbett et al. (2012). achievement tests, and grades are positively correlated with each other, the recent literature shows that they measure different skills and depend on different facets of cognitive ability.”
• Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition (2013, methodology): “For example, all of these measures are used as measures of intelligence in Flynn (2007), Nisbett (2009), and Nisbett et al. (2012).”