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The rising curve : long-term gains in IQ and related measures / edited by Ulric Neisser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: APA science volumesPublication details: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 415 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1557985030 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF431 .R477 1998
Contents:
Introduction : rising test scores and what they mean / Ulric Neisser -- IQ gains over time : toward finding the causes / James R. Flynn --Environmental complexity and the Flynn effect / Carmi Schooler -- The cultural evolution of IQ / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Are we raising smarter children today? School- and home-related influences on IQ / Wendy M. Williams -- The role of nutrition in the development of intelligence / Marian Sigman and Shannon E. Whaley -- Nutrition and the worldwide rise in IQ scores / Reynaldo Martorell -- In support of the nutrition theory / Richard Lynn -- Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : I. uses and misuses of NAEP/SAT data / Robert M. Hauser -- Exploring the rapid rise in Black achievement scores in the United States (1970-1990) / David W. Grissmer ... [et al.] -- The shrinking gap between high- and low-scoring groups : current trends and possible causes / Stephen J. Ceci, Tina B. Rosenblum, and Matthew Kumpf --Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : II. the WORDSUM vocabulary test / Min-Hsiung Huang and Robert M. Hauser -- The decline of genotypic intelligence / Richard Lynn -- Problems in inferring dysgenic trends for intelligence / Irwin D. Waldman -- Differential fertility by IQ and the IQ distribution of a popluation / Samuel H. Preston -- Whither dysgenics? Comments on Lynn and Preston / John C. Loehlin.
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Based on papers presented at a conference held in the spring of 1996 at Emory University.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : rising test scores and what they mean / Ulric Neisser -- IQ gains over time : toward finding the causes / James R. Flynn --Environmental complexity and the Flynn effect / Carmi Schooler -- The cultural evolution of IQ / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Are we raising smarter children today? School- and home-related influences on IQ / Wendy M. Williams -- The role of nutrition in the development of intelligence / Marian Sigman and Shannon E. Whaley -- Nutrition and the worldwide rise in IQ scores / Reynaldo Martorell -- In support of the nutrition theory / Richard Lynn -- Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : I. uses and misuses of NAEP/SAT data / Robert M. Hauser -- Exploring the rapid rise in Black achievement scores in the United States (1970-1990) / David W. Grissmer ... [et al.] -- The shrinking gap between high- and low-scoring groups : current trends and possible causes / Stephen J. Ceci, Tina B. Rosenblum, and Matthew Kumpf --Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : II. the WORDSUM vocabulary test / Min-Hsiung Huang and Robert M. Hauser -- The decline of genotypic intelligence / Richard Lynn -- Problems in inferring dysgenic trends for intelligence / Irwin D. Waldman -- Differential fertility by IQ and the IQ distribution of a popluation / Samuel H. Preston -- Whither dysgenics? Comments on Lynn and Preston / John C. Loehlin.

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