Does your family make you smarter?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 1:45 pm
Susan Godsland flagged up this interesting article via Twitter - and I thought it worth including here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books ... KA.twitterDoes 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
Do read the whole piece - it's short and interesting - and the topic is important.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