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Massive IQ Gains in 14 Nations: What IQ Tests Really Measure

James R. Flynn

IQ test scores rose by roughly three points per decade across fourteen industrialised nations over the twentieth century, a rise too fast to reflect real gains in general intelligence, which argues that IQ tests measure a narrower abstract problem-solving skill rather than intelligence as ordinarily understood.

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