The 20th century witnessed a dramatic increase in IQ, as much as 3 points per decade (see Are you smarter than Aristotle? Part I). The fact that IQ scores increased so much in such a short amount of ...

Historically, intelligence tests and large-scale assessments have shown that each new generation tends to outperform its parents in reasoning, problem-solving, and academic achievement, a trend known ...

There is a little-known phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. It basically states that from the early 1930s throughout the 20th century, IQ scores have significantly increased all around the world ...