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James Robert Flynn (also Jim Flynn, born 1934) is an intelligence researcher and Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-on-year rise of IQ scores in all parts of the world. Flynn is the author of five books and his research interests are humane ideals and ideological debate, classics of political philosophy, and race, class and IQ (see race and intelligence)..[1] His books combine political and moral philosophy with psychology to examine problems such as justifying humane ideals and whether it makes sense to rank by merit races and classes. He currently sits on the editorial board of Intelligence.[2] Originally from Chicago, Flynn arrived in New Zealand in 1963.

Flynn is a passionate campaigner for liberal causes, and was a founding member of both the NewLabour Party and the Alliance. He also advised Labour Prime Minister Norman Kirk on Foreign Policy. He has stood for Parliament on a number of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list candidate, and is currently their spokesperson on Finance and Taxation.

In 2007, new research from the 2006 New Zealand census showed that those women without a tertiary education had produced 2.57 babies each, compared to 1.85 babies for those women with a higher education. In July 2007, Flynn was misquoted in the Sunday Star Times as having suggested that New Zealand was at risk of having a less intelligent population and that there a "persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually". Among the hypothetical eugenicists' suggestions that he referred to for reversing the trend was for some sort of oral contraceptive "in the water supply and have to take an antidote" in order to conceive. Flynn commented that at "73 he was too old to worry about offending anyone".[3] One academic described what was reported as Flynn's view in the Sunday Star Times as "totally repugnant" and that it was "social engineering of the worst sort". [4]

Flynn later articulated his own views, showing that the Sunday Star Times had grossly misrepresented his views, on Close Up in an interview with Paul Henry. Flynn argues that his suggestion was not serious, but intended to illustrate a point.[5]. The possibility of manipulating fertility was previously suggested in the controversial best-seller The Bell Curve, a book which Flynn consistently argues against in his academic work and teaching.

Partial bibliography

  • Race, IQ and Jensen
  • Humanism and Ideology: an Aristotelian View
  • Asian Americans : Achievement Beyond IQ
  • How to Defend Humane Ideals
  • What is Intelligence?

References

1. ^ Faculty page
2. ^ Intelligence publisher's page.[1]
3. ^ "Brainier mums needed to maintain future generations' intelligence, says professor", NZPA, 2007-07-08. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. 
4. ^ "Put the pill in tapwater - top prof", Sunday Star Times, 2007-07-08. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. 
5. ^ "Academic in hot water over remarks", The Otago Daily Times, 2007-07-09. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. 

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Jim Flynn might refer to:
  • Fireman Jim Flynn (fl. 1906-12), a bare-knuckle boxer.
  • James Flynn (fencer) (1907-2000), American fencer (bronze medal at '48 Olympics)
  • James R. Flynn (born 1934), intelligence gathering.
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intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence. IQ tests are used as predictors of educational achievement. People with low IQ scores are sometimes placed in special-needs education.
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University of Otago (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 20,000 students enrolled during 2006.
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Dunedin () (Ōtepoti in Maori) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago.
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The Flynn effect is the rise of average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test scores, an effect seen in most parts of the world, although at greatly varying rates. It is named after James R. Flynn, who did much to document it and promote awareness of its implications.
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intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence. IQ tests are used as predictors of educational achievement. People with low IQ scores are sometimes placed in special-needs education.
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The study of race and intelligence is the controversial study of how human intellectual capacities may vary among the different population groups commonly known as races. This study seeks to identify and explain the differences in manifestations of intelligence (e.g.
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RACE can refer to:
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Intelligence is a psychology journal that addresses intelligence and psychometrics. It was founded in 1977 by Douglas K. Detterman of Case Western Reserve University. Published by Elsevier, it is the journal of the International Society for Intelligence Research.
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NewLabour was the name chosen by Jim Anderton, an MP and former President of the New Zealand Labour Party, for his new left-of-centre party in 1989.

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The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left [1] and socially liberal [2] , and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935.
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Norman Eric Kirk (6 January 1923 - 31 August 1974), was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He led the Parliamentary wing of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1965 to 1974. Kirk had a reputation as the most formidable debater of his time.
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Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel. It is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., USA. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas.
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Oral contraceptives are medications taken by mouth for the purpose of birth control.

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The Bell Curve
Author Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray
Publisher Free Press
Publication date September 1994
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