Searching for justice: The discovery of IQ gains over time.

@article{Flynn1999SearchingFJ,
  title={Searching for justice: The discovery of IQ gains over time.},
  author={James R. Flynn},
  journal={American Psychologist},
  year={1999},
  volume={54},
  pages={5-20},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:273602839}
}
  • James R. Flynn
  • Published 1999
  • Psychology, Sociology
  • American Psychologist
Humane-egalitarian ideals, whose aims are group justice and reducing environmental inequality and privilege, must be tested against reality, as revealed by psychology and other social sciences. Four issues are addressed: the equation between IQ and intelligence, whether group potential is determined by a group's mean IQ, whether the BlackWhite IQ gap is genetic, and the meritocratic thesis that genes for IQ will become highly correlated with class. Massive IQ gains over time test the lQ… 
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