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Does your Family Make You Smarter?: Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy
James R. Flynn
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Description for Does your Family Make You Smarter?: Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy
hardcover. A new method of estimating what affects IQ shows that life history and choice count toward your level of intelligence. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b/w illus. 33 tables. BIC Classification: JMF; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family environment can confer a significant advantage or disadvantage to your level of intelligence. Wading into the nature vs. nurture debate, Flynn banishes the pessimistic notion that by the age of seventeen, people's cognitive abilities are solely determined by their genes. He argues that intelligence is also influenced by ... Read more
Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family environment can confer a significant advantage or disadvantage to your level of intelligence. Wading into the nature vs. nurture debate, Flynn banishes the pessimistic notion that by the age of seventeen, people's cognitive abilities are solely determined by their genes. He argues that intelligence is also influenced by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107150058
SKU
V9781107150058
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99-18
About James R. Flynn
James R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a recipient of the University's Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. He is renowned for the 'Flynn effect', the documentation of massive IQ gains from one generation to another. Professor Flynn is the author of 12 books, including Are We Getting Smarter? (Cambridge, 2012), Where Have ... Read more
Reviews for Does your Family Make You Smarter?: Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy
'Another superb piece of work by the best mind in the business. The analysis of data is penetrating, the elaboration of its meaning highly illuminating, and the discourse on theories of intelligence is a feast for the mind.' Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr 'Another amazing analysis of IQ data by James Flynn! As author of the Stanford-Binet 5, I have admired ... Read more