Does your family make you smarter?

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Does your family make you smarter?

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Susan Godsland flagged up this interesting article via Twitter - and I thought it worth including here:
Does your family make you smarter? Ask the IQ expert

James R Flynn explains how IQ gains have happened over generations and how individuals can surmount home disadvantage to improve their cognitive abilities
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books ... KA.twitter
In sum, at any time of your adult life you can make you own luck: you can go back to university, join a book club, retired from law write a book on jurisprudence rather than just watch TV. Twins aside, your brain will respond to the cognitive exercise that new demands happen to impose.

James R Flynn’s new book Does your family make your smarter? Nature, nurture and human autonomy is published by Cambridge University Press
Do read the whole piece - it's short and interesting - and the topic is important.
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