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Title The rising curve : long-term gains in IQ and related measures / edited by Ulric Neisser
Edition First edition
Published Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1998]
©1998

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Description xv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series APA science volumes
APA science volumes.
Contents 1. Introduction: Rising Test Scores and What They Mean / Ulric Neisser -- Pt. 1. Gains on Intelligence Tests. 2. IQ Gains Over Time: Toward Finding the Causes / James R. Flynn. 3. Environmental Complexity and the Flynn Effect / Carmi Schooler. 4. The Cultural Evolution of IQ / Patricia M. Greenfield. 5. Are We Raising Smarter Children Today? School- and Home-Related Influences on IQ / Wendy M. Williams. 6. The Role of Nutrition in the Development of Intelligence / Marian Sigman and Shannon E. Whaley. 7. Nutrition and the Worldwide Rise in IQ Scores / Reynaldo Martorell. 8. In Support of the Nutrition Theory / Richard Lynn -- Pt. 2. A Narrowing Gap in School Achievement. 9. Trends in Black-White Test-Score Differentials: I. Uses and Misuses of NAEP/SAT Data / Robert M. Hauser. 10. Exploring the Rapid Rise in Black Achievement Scores in the United States (1970-1990) / David W. Grissmer, Stephanie Williamson and Sheila Nataraj Kirby [et al.]
11. The Shrinking Gap Between High- and Low-Scoring Groups: Current Trends and Possible Causes / Stephen J. Ceci, Tina B. Rosenblum and Matthew Kumpf. 12. Trends in Black-White Test-Score Differentials: II. The WORDSUM Vocabulary Test / Min-Hsiung Huang and Robert M. Hauser -- Pt. 3. The Hypothesis of Dysgenic Trends. 13. The Decline of Genotypic Intelligence / Richard Lynn. 14. Problems in Inferring Dysgenic Trends for Intelligence / Irwin D. Waldman. 15. Differential Fertility by IQ and the IQ Distribution of a Population / Samuel H. Preston. 16. Whither Dysgenics? Comments on Lynn and Preston / John C. Loehlin
Summary For a long time now, intelligence and achievement tests have been cast as the bearers of bad news. In The Bell Curve, R. Herrnstein and C. Murray (see record 1994-98748-000) argued that there are sharp limits on the intelligence of most of the population; they also noted that the test scores of several minority groups have been chronically low. But the trends documented here tell a different story. The authors show that intelligence test scores are going up everywhere in the world; what's more, the Black-White gap in the school achievement of American children has closed substantially in recent years. Authors from the fields of psychology, sociology, psychometrics, and nutrition present and defend different interpretations of these findings. Do the IQ gains reflect genuine gains in intelligence? Are they due to cultural changes, better schools, increased test sophistication, or improved diet and health? Were the government programs established during the "War on Poverty" partly responsible for the school gains of minority children in the 1970s. The final section addresses the issue: Will the different birth rates of different social classes inevitably produce a "dysgenic trend," as Herrnstein and Murray have claimed? (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
Analysis Afro-Americans
Notes Based on papers presented at a conference held in the spring of 1996 at Emory University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Also issued in print
In English
Subject African Americans -- Intelligence levels.
Intellect -- Genetic aspects.
Intelligence levels -- History -- 20th century.
Intelligence -- genetics.
African Americans.
Intelligence Tests.
African Americans -- intelligence levels
Intelligence.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Neisser, Ulric.
American Psychological Association.
LC no. 97052183
ISBN 1557985030 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OTHER TI PsycBOOKS collection