Phlogiston, fluid intelligence, and the Lynn-Flynn effect
- Author(s)
- Martin Voracek
- Abstract
Blair's assertion that fluid intelligence (gF) is distinct from general intelligence (g) is contradictory to cumulative evidence from intelligence research, including extant and novel evidence about generational IQ gains (Lynn-Flynn effect). Because of the near unity of gF and g, his hypothetical concept of gF' (gF "purged" of g variance) may well be a phlogiston theory. Π2006 Cambridge University Press.
- Organisation(s)
- Project: Family Studies in Austria
- Journal
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences: an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary
- Volume
- 29
- Pages
- 142-143
- No. of pages
- 2
- ISSN
- 0140-525X
- Publication date
- 2006
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 5010 Psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b6aae1b8-d18f-48b9-a3c5-3bca9743c86d