Intelligence articles from December 1998

Intelligence archives from December 1998

The Pioneer Fund, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Media's False Stories.
December 1, 1998... THE PIONEER FUND, THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, AND FALSE STORIES BY THE MEDIA The false charge of racism is simply a tactic to choke off rational discussion, a strategy of intimidation to silence expression... It is based on a...

A Critique of the Flynn Effect: Massive IQ Gains, Methodological Artifacts, or Both?
December 1, 1998... The purpose of this article is to present a critique of the Flynn Effect, with particular attention to the original two articles that established the existence of the effect (Flynn, 1984, 1987). The critique will be organized around six...

Is Age Kinder to the Initially More Able?: Differential Ageing of a Verbal Ability in the Healthy Old People in Edinburgh Study.
December 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION As far as we are aware, this is the fourth journal article to appear with the title "Is age kinder to the initially more able?" Our predecessors are Thompson (1954), Owens (1959) and Christensen and Henderson (1991), who...

Mitochondrial DNA Marker EST00083 Is not Associated with High vs. Average IQ in a German Sample.
December 1, 1998... Intelligence (general cognitive ability, g, often assessed by IQ tests) is one of the most highly heritable behavioral traits (Plomin & Petrill, 1997). A new approach for genetic research is to use the tools of molecular genetics to identify...

A Specific Calculating Ability.
December 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The study to be reported here focuses on two issues. The first concerns the strategies used by a young autistic man without language ability, to calculate prime numbers. The second question we asked is concerned with the...

Herrnstein's Syllogism: Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences on IQ, Education, and Income.
December 1, 1998... The current study addresses an old issue about individual success in life that was renewed by the publication of The Bell Curve (Herrnstein & Murray, 1994). The primary empirical focus of that work was to address the problem of which of two...