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Statistics: IQ Name Institutional affiliations Question 3 The essay explores the statistical data found in the study of the Flynn Effect and also discuss why the intelligence quotients of different ethnic groups tend to differ. The Flynn Effect aims at describing the phenomena of the intelligence of human beings. It has also been described as a long-term trend towards rising scores on intelligence quotient tests resulting to norms obsolescence. The Flynn Effect is attributed to James Flynn, a psychologist who sought to study the growth in the average intelligence quotient scores in various countries like the United States. Statistical data. The article “Are We Smarter than Our Parents?” relates back to the year 1800’s when Alfred Binet created a test to help children in need, and it involved taking the child’s mental age and dividing it by 100 so as to define their intelligence quotients. The article also sought to study the awareness of individuals regarding the controversy that was surrounding the reliability of the intelligence quotient scores. The study questions involved whether the intelligence quotient tests measured intelligence or something different and whether the intelligence quotients could be measured by other factors such as education or environmental conditions if at all the intelligence quotient test was able to measure intelligence. The statistical data that was found in relation to the above questions showed that intelligence quotients could be able to be distributed in the normal curve with a standard deviation of 16 and a mean of 16. This gives a psychologist a system of classifying whether participants are intellectually
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