James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (28 April 193411 December 2020) was a New Zealand intelligence researcher.
He posits that the Black-White IQ score gap can be entirely explained by environmental factors if "the average environment for Blacks in 1995 matches the quality of the average environment for Whites in 1945." Flynn's 2007 book What Is Intelligence? impressed Charles Murray, a co-author of the book The Bell Curve, who wrote in a statement published on the book's back cover, "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me.
In Where Have All the Liberals Gone?, Flynn states that in the early 1960s in America, he was consistently fired for his social democratic politics, prompting his emigration. In New Zealand Flynn continued to campaign for left-wing causes, and advised Labour Prime Minister Norman Kirk on foreign policy.
and educated at the University of Chicago, Flynn emigrated to New Zealand in 1963, where he taught political studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
In 1967, he served as a chairperson for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a civil rights organisation in the US South.
However, Flynn announced that the media had seriously distorted his results and went beyond his findings, revealing that he had instead discovered that the differences between men and women on one particular test, the Raven's Progressive Matrices, had become minimal in five modernised nations (whereas before 1982 women had scored significantly lower).
In the 1990s he became a founding member of both the NewLabour Party and of the Alliance.
He posits that the Black-White IQ score gap can be entirely explained by environmental factors if "the average environment for Blacks in 1995 matches the quality of the average environment for Whites in 1945." Flynn's 2007 book What Is Intelligence? impressed Charles Murray, a co-author of the book The Bell Curve, who wrote in a statement published on the book's back cover, "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me.
The Flynn effect is the subject of a multiple-author monograph published by the American Psychological Association in 1998. Test score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to the present.
His book, Race, IQ and Jensen (1980), is a distinguished contribution to the literature on this topic, and, among the critiques I have seen of my position, is virtually in a class by itself for objectivity, thoroughness, and scholarly integrity. A 1999 article published in American Psychologist summarises much of his research.
In 2008 he acted as the Alliance spokesperson for finance and taxation. ==Controversial remarks and opinions== During 2007, new research from the 2006 New Zealand census showed that women without a tertiary (college) education had produced 2.57 babies each, compared to 1.85 babies for those women with a higher education.
He posits that the Black-White IQ score gap can be entirely explained by environmental factors if "the average environment for Blacks in 1995 matches the quality of the average environment for Whites in 1945." Flynn's 2007 book What Is Intelligence? impressed Charles Murray, a co-author of the book The Bell Curve, who wrote in a statement published on the book's back cover, "This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me.
In 2008 he acted as the Alliance spokesperson for finance and taxation. ==Controversial remarks and opinions== During 2007, new research from the 2006 New Zealand census showed that women without a tertiary (college) education had produced 2.57 babies each, compared to 1.85 babies for those women with a higher education.
During July 2007, The Sunday Star-Times quoted Flynn as saying that New Zealand risked having a less intelligent population and that a "persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually".
In 2008 he acted as the Alliance spokesperson for finance and taxation. ==Controversial remarks and opinions== During 2007, new research from the 2006 New Zealand census showed that women without a tertiary (college) education had produced 2.57 babies each, compared to 1.85 babies for those women with a higher education.
He urged those who believe in racial equality to use solid evidence to advance those beliefs. Flynn's 2010 book The Torchlight List proposes that a person can learn more from reading great works of literature than they can from going to university.
In the article, Flynn argued that he never intended for his suggestion to be taken seriously, as he only said this to illustrate a particular point. In July 2012, several media outlets reported Flynn as saying that women had, for the first time in a century, surpassed men on IQ tests based on a study he conducted in 2010.
In the article, Flynn argued that he never intended for his suggestion to be taken seriously, as he only said this to illustrate a particular point. In July 2012, several media outlets reported Flynn as saying that women had, for the first time in a century, surpassed men on IQ tests based on a study he conducted in 2010.
In 2019, Emerald Insight reversed its decision to publish Flynn's then upcoming book In Defence of Free Speech.
in their ability to deal with using logic on the abstract problems of Raven's", but that temperamental differences in the way boys and girls take the tests likely account for the tiny variations in mean scores, rather than any difference in intellectual ability. In 2019, Flynn was told that his new book In Defense of Free Speech: The University as Censor would not be published by the English publisher Emerald, who had previously accepted it and scheduled it for publication.
James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (28 April 193411 December 2020) was a New Zealand intelligence researcher.
He died at Yvette Williams Retirement Village in Dunedin on 11 December 2020, aged 86. Flynn's son Victor is a mathematics professor at New College, Oxford. ==Academic work== Flynn wrote a variety of books.
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