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What Is Intelligence?

What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that of his colleague William Dickens of the Brookings Institution.

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The four "paradoxes" of the Flynn effect

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Author
James R. Flynn
Dewey Decimal
153.9 22
LC Class
BF431 .F57 2007
Media type
Hardcover
Pages
216
Published
September 2007 Cambridge University Press

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