Biography
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James Robert Flynn (also Jim Flynn, born 1934) is an intelligence researcher and Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-on-year rise of IQ scores in all parts of the world. Flynn is the author of five books and his research interests are humane ideals and ideological debate, classics of political philosophy, and race, class and IQ (see race and intelligence).Faculty page His books combine political and moral philosophy with psychology to examine problems such as justifying humane ideals and whether it makes sense to rank by merit races and classes. He currently sits on the editorial board of Intelligence.Intelligence publisher's page.[1] Originally from Chicago, Flynn arrived in New Zealand in 1963.
Flynn is a passionate campaigner for liberal causes, and was a founding member of both the NewLabour Party and the Alliance. He also advised Labour Prime Minister Norman Kirk on Foreign Policy. He has stood for Parliament on a number of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list candidate, and is currently their spokesperson on Finance and Taxation.
Partial bibliography
- Race, IQ and Jensen
- Humanism and Ideology: an Aristotelian View
- Asian Americans : Achievement Beyond IQ
- How to Defend Humane Ideals
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