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.

James R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Flynn researches intelligence and is best known for the discovery that, over the past century, IQs have been rising at ...

So argues James R. Flynn, a political scientist who for decades has been “one of the most original thinkers” working in the field of IQ testing, said Bruce Bower in Science News.

Mary R. Flynn May 24, 1923 - June 11, 2004 Our beloved wife and mother, a woman of pure heart and a beautiful soul passed away peacefully on June 11, 2004.

Flynn’s book sometimes gets bogged down in details and cross-national data crunching. But he remains one of the most original thinkers in IQ testing. Cambridge Univ., 2012, 310 p., $22 ...