Based on papers presented at a conference held in the spring of 1996 at Emory University.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 -- Cultural evolution of IQ / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Are we raising smarter children today? School- and home-related influences on IQ / Wendy M. Williams -- 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.]. -- 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. WORDSUM vocabulary test / Min-Hsiung Huang and Robert M. Hauser -- 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 population / Samuel H. Preston -- Whither dysgenics? Comments on Lynn and Preston / John C. Loehlin.
