The
New York Times finally gets around to running an obituary for James Flynn, the most important leftist intelligence researcher of the last half century, who died December 11 of the last year. Similarly, it took the
Times a long time to print an Arthur Jensen obituary. Unlike Jensen’s, however, now that this one is finally here, it’s pretty good:
A philosopher who moved into psychology and studied I.Q., he showed that as society grows more technical, human intellectual abilities expand to meet the challenge.
James R. Flynn in 2016. His research helped discredit the theory that differences in performance on I.Q. tests between Black and white people were a result of genetic differences.