Gladwell on James Flynn on I.Q.

Malcolm Gladwell writes about the mutability of I.Q. in this week's issue of The New Yorker.

The article gives a very brief history of I.Q. tests in America and a few consequences of those tests. It also addresses issues of race and eugenics, and nature vs. nurture.

What I found particularly striking was the Chinese-American example of high achievement preceding high I.Q. on the generational level. It is an obvious consequence of Flynn's ideas, but nonintuitive nonetheless.