Talk:James R. Flynn

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[edit] Flynn on G

Interesting:

"In fact, g has some application even across species. Human children can be given certain of the performance tests designed for animals, and this reveals that g-loaded tasks put apes ahead of monkeys, monkeys ahead of dogs, and dogs ahead of chickens. Gould (1981, The Mismeasure of Man) expresses horror: speaking as a paleontologist, he accuses Jensen of ranking all animal species, each of which possesses its own solution to its own environmental niche, according to human standards. Surely that is the whole point: human beings rank animals using a distinctively human concept of intelligence, the primitive concept found in everyday life, and these rankings correlate with g." J.R.FLYNN, 1987, 'The ontology of intelligence'.

--Nectar ^T 03:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)