[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>   
>> Flynn and other IQ researchers have used a lot of sneaky techniques to
>> document this.  One example: give people a modern version of the
>> Stanford-Binet and the 1920s version, and assess their score on each
>> test relative to the validation sample in each time era.  What you  
>> find
>> is that someone who scores average on the modern test scores much  
>> higher
>> than average on the 1920s test, when compared to people who took the
>> test in the 1920s.
>>     
>
> The 1920s were a long time ago. What about vs. 1950 or 1970?
>
> Doug
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Same pattern, smaller increase.

Miles