Re: Flynn Effect explained?

From: Mark Plus (markplus@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 15:32:08 MDT


Bradley Felton wrote,

>From: Bradley Felton <zim@pobox.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Flynn Effect explained?
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:56:31 -0500
>
[snip]

>David Friedman's explanation of the Flynn effect seems a lot more logical,
>though it may be too un-PC to receive much acceptance:
>
><http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Miscellaneous/why_getting_smarter.htm>
>
>
>-- Bradley Felton PGP encrypted mail preffered

I ran across a headline recently that cesarean births are becoming quite
common in South Korea for some reason, so this country could serve as a test
of Friedman's "big-headed baby" conjecture. Not that East Asians are
intellectually uncompetitive as is!

Trans-millennially yours,

Mark Plus, Expansionary
"Working to make religion and death obsolescent in the 21st Century."

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