Ο Lynn είχε προκαλέσει πέρυσι σάλο επειδή βρήκε ότι οι γυναίκες έχουν δείκτη κατά μέσο όρο 5 μονάδες κάτω από τους άντρες. Φέτος που έβγαλε τους Γάλλους κατά 6-13 μονάδες κάτω από τους γείτονές τους, περιμένετε να δείτε τι έχει ν' ακούσει!
Νίκο μου, το είχαμε συζητήσει αναλυτικά σε ιστολόγια πέρυσι. Είχα πει τότε ότι παντρεμένος άνθρωπος που δημοσιεύει τέτοια "αποτελέσματα" μάλλον είναι χαμηλού IQ. Έξυπνος άνθρωπος θα καταδίκαζε ποτέ τον εαυτό του σε άλλα 30 χρόνια κρεββατομουρμούρας; Βέβαια, όταν ένας ψυχολόγος πάει να κάνει... evolutionary analysis, έχουμε θεματάκι:
From time to time
Lynn notes anomalies in his theory that require explanations.
E, ναι. Εδώ όμως μας τα εξηγεί τόοοοσο επιστημονικά στο site του... One of these is that the Europeans have made most of the great intellectual advances and discoveries, while the East Asians, despite having a higher IQ have made relatively few (as extensively documented by Murray, 2003). Lynn proposes the explanation for this may be that the East Asians are more conformist that Europeans and this inhibits creative achievement.
και ακόμα πιο ανέκδοτο:
He also notes one or two anomalies in his cold winter theory of race differences in intelligence. The most striking of these is that the Inuit have been exposed to the coldest winter temperatures and have evolved large brains, the same average size as that of the East Asians. Yet their IQ is only 91, and this is the IQ obtained by those who attend the same schools as Europeans. To explain this anomaly he proposed that two genetic processes must be assumed to explain the evolution of race differences in intelligence. The first of these is that differences in the frequencies of the alleles for high and low intelligence have evolved between races such that the alleles for high intelligence are more common in the races with the higher IQs and less common in the races with the lower IQs. The early humans that migrated out of Africa and spread throughout the world would have carried all the alleles for high and low intelligence with them, but those who colonized Asia and Europe were exposed to the cognitively demanding problems of survival during cold winters. Many of those carrying the alleles for low intelligence would have been unable to survive during the cold winters and the less intelligent individuals and tribes would have died out, leaving as survivors the more intelligent. This process would have reduced and possibly eliminated the alleles for low intelligence, leaving a higher proportion of the alleles for high intelligence. The more severe the winter temperatures, the greater the selection pressure for the elimination of low IQ individuals carrying low IQ alleles. This process explains the broad association between coldest winter temperatures and IQs and brain size.
Έτσι εξηγείται λέει ο Flynn στο site του.
http://www.rlynn.co.uk/Για τις πιο κοντές νέες και τους πιο κοντούς νέους:
My work on intelligence and brain size led me to consider
the problem that women have smaller brains than men even when allowance is made for their smaller bodies.
btw: για όσους ενδιαφέρονται για το Flynn effect (αναφορά για το πώς ξύπνησαν οι Γιαπωνέζοι -και δουλεύουν 18ωρα στη γραμμή παραγωγής- υπάρχει στο site του Lynn):
This phenomenon of increasing average IQ scores is called the Flynn effect after James R. Flynn, a political scientist from New Zealand who first described it. Φαίνεται το Flynn-Lynn στο obsession με το IQ; Τον συμπαθώ όμως για άλλο λόγο. Είχε βγάλει ένα πεϊπεράκι (άκρως επιστημονικό) :-) που έλεγε:
Men are more competitive than women. Men value money more than women do.
Competitiveness and the valuation of money are positively correlated, indicating that the valuation of money is a function of competitiveness. Έχοντας κατηγορηθεί κατ'επανάληψη από το άλλο... φύλο και για τα δύο, χαίρομαι που επιτέλους
αποδεικνύεται επιστημονικά :-) το αντίθετο. Mε τα exceptions θα ασχολούμαστε τώρα;;
:-))))
http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/lynn-sex-competitiveness?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=Psychologists;Richard+Lynn&cumulative_category_id=Psychologists;Lynn