Steven Pinker Quotes

An Average Teenager Today, If He Or She Could Time-travel Back To 1950, Would Have Had An IQ Of 118. If The Teenager Went Back To 1910, He Or She Would Have Had An IQ Of 130, Besting 98 Percent Of His Or Her Contemporaries. Yes, You Read That Right: If We Take The Flynn Effect At Face Value, A Typical Person Today Is Smarter Than 98 Percent Of The People In The Good Old Days Of 1910. To State It In An Even More Jarring Way, A Typical Person Of 1910, If Time-transported Forward To The Present, Would Have A Mean IQ Of 70, Which Is At The Border Of Mental Retardation. With The Raven's Progressive Matrices, A Test That Is Sometimes Considered The Purest Measure Of General Intelligence, The Rise Is Even Steeper. An Ordinary Person Of 1910 Would Have An IQ Of 50 Today, Which Is Smack In The Middle Of Mentally Retarded Territory, Between "moderate" And "mild" Retardation.

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