Podcast appearances and mentions of James Flynn

This week we sat down with James Flynn, an investor at Sequoia. James focuses on growth-stage investments for Sequoia and was previously an investor at General Atlantic.  During the episode, we cover James's journey to Sequoia, highlighting intellectual curiosity and his competitive spirit as key attributes in his path to the firm. The conversation features a number of fascinating perspectives across investing in "daring" companies, including James's take on the relative importance of business model / founder / market in making an investment decision. We also cover how James thinks about absolute valuation as opposed to a multiple, and how he believes junior investors can add value.  James's energy is infectious and his eloquence and clarity of thought stand out, making the conversation one of our most fascinating yet. Episode Chapters:Key personal characteristics - 2:19James's journey post-college - 9:30Breaking in to Sequoia - 12:55Taking the shot - 13:55 Underwriting thoughts - numbers support the story - 21:33Sequoia's singular KPI - 27:45How junior investors can add value - 30:10Absolute valuation matters - 35:31 James's areas of focus - 38:32 Implications on education - 41:12Quick fire round - 43:26As always, feel free to contact us at partnerpathpodcast@gmail.com. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.Fresh out of Y Combinator's Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

Relançamento de uma curta série de 2020 (re-editada). Inteligência: pode ser estreitamente definida? Pode ser objetivamente medida? O que pesa mais no desenvolver da capacidade cognitiva: genética ou ambiente? Veja bem. Mais. Contate-nos por email: vejabempodcast@outlook.com Encontre-nos também no: ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ e ⁠YouTube⁠. Epis Citados  Playlist - VB Inteligência ⁠VBMais 51 – Complexidade (Bodas de ouro)⁠ ⁠VB 63 – Amor⁠ ⁠VB 54 – Por que peixes não existem?⁠ ⁠VB 53 – Pensando Rápido e Devagar⁠ ⁠VBMais 49 – Niilismo e Existencialismo⁠ ⁠VBMais 37 – Atenção⁠ ⁠VB 15 – Experimentos Socias/estudos científicos⁠ ⁠VB Padrinhos 02 – Inteligência Verbal⁠ ⁠VBMais 38 – Leis⁠ ⁠VBMais 29 – Guerra Justa pt2⁠ VB 64 – Nomes e Sobrenomes⁠ ⁠VBMais 11 – Inteligencia Artificial Referências: ⁠Intelligence: All That Matters ⁠ – Stuart Ritchie, livro https://www.amazon.com.br/Intelligence-All-That-Matters-English-ebook/ ⁠What Is Intelligence?⁠ – James Flynn, livro https://www.amazon.com.br/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Effect-English-ebook/ ⁠Waking Up With Sam Harris #73 – Forbidden Knowledge with Charles Murray ⁠– podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv0SFuArjGI ⁠Nothing but a “G” thing (intelligence pt 1) ⁠– Very Bad Wizards, podcast https://www.verybadwizards.com/122 ⁠Intelligence⁠ – BBC, In Our Time Podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545l3 ⁠Radiolab Presents: G – Radiolab⁠ (podcast, série com 6 episódios, incluindo o relato do processo racial na Califórnia) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/radiolab-presents-g ⁠None of the Above⁠ – artigo, The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/17/none-of-the-above

IQ is, to say the least, a fraught concept. Psychologists have studied IQ—or g for “general cognitive ability”—maybe more than any other psychological construct. And they've learned some interesting things about it. That it's remarkably stable over the lifespan. That it really is general: people who ace one test of intellectual ability tend to ace others. And that IQs have risen markedly over the last century. At the same time, IQ seems to be met with increasing squeamishness, if not outright disdain, in many circles. It's often seen as crude, misguided, reductive—maybe a whole lot worse. There's no question, after all, that IQ has been misused—that it still gets misused—for all kinds of racist, classist, colonialist purposes. As if this wasn't all thorny enough, the study of IQ is also intimately bound up with the study of genetics. It's right there in the roiling center of debates about how genes and environment make us who we are. So, yeah, what to make of all this? How should we be thinking about IQ? My guest today is Dr. Eric Turkheimer. Eric is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has studied intelligence and many other complex human traits for decades, and he's a major figure in the field of “behavior genetics.” Eric also has a new book out this fall—which I highly recommend—titled Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate. In a field that has sometimes been accused of rampant optimism, Eric is—as you'll hear—a bit more measured. In this conversation, Eric and I focus on intelligence and its putatively genetic basis. We talk about why Eric doubts that we are anywhere close to an account of the biology of IQ. We discuss what makes intelligence such a formidable construct in psychology and why essentialist understandings of it are so intuitive. We talk about Francis Galton and the long shadow he's cast on the study of human behavior. We discuss the classic era of Twin Studies—an era in which researchers started to derive quantitative estimates of the heritability of complex traits. We talk about how the main takeaway from that era was that genes are quite important indeed, and about how more genetic techniques suggest that takeaway may have been a bit simplistic. Along the way, Eric and I touch on spelling ability, child prodigies, the chemical composition of money, the shared quirks of twins reared apart, the Flynn Effect, the Reverse Flynn Effect, birth order, the genetics of height, the problem of missing heritability, whether we should still be using IQ scores, and the role of behavior genetics in the broader social sciences.  Alright folks, lots in here—let's just get to it. On to my conversation with Dr. Eric Turkheimer. Enjoy!   A transcript of this episode will be available soon.   Notes and links 3:30 – The 1994 book The Bell Curve, by Richard Herrnstein a Charles Murray, dealt largely with the putative social implications of IQ research. It was extremely controversial and widely discussed. For an overview of the book and controversy, see the Wikipedia article here. 6:00 – For discussion of the “all parents are environmentalists…” quip, see here. 12:00 – The notion of “multiple intelligences” was popularized by the psychologist Howard Gardner—see here for an overview. See here for an attempt to test the claims of the “multiple intelligences” framework using some of the methods of traditional IQ research. For work on EQ (or Emotional Intelligence) see here. 19:00 – Dr. Turkheimer has also laid out his spelling test analogy in a Substack post. 22:30 – Dr. Turkheimer's 1998 paper, “Heritability and Biological Explanation.” 24:30 – For an in-passing treatment of the processing efficiency idea, see p. 195 of Daniel Nettle's book Personality. See also Richard Haier's book, The Neuroscience of Intelligence. 26:00 – The original study on the relationship between pupil size and intelligence. A more recent study that fails to replicate those findings. 31:00 – For an argument that child prodigies constitute an argument for “nature,” see here. For a memorable narrative account of one child prodigy, see here. 32:00 – A meta-analysis of the Flynn effect. We have previously discussed the Flynn Effect in an episode with Michael Muthukrishna. 37:00 – James Flynn's book, What is Intelligence? On the reversal of the Flynn Effect, see here. 40:00 – The phrase “nature-nurture” originally comes from Shakespeare and was picked up by Francis Galton. In The Tempest, Prospero describes Caliban as “a born devil on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick.” 41:00 – For a biography of Galton, see here. For an article-length account of Galton's role in the birth of eugenics, see here. 50:00 – For an account of R.A. Fisher's 1918 paper and its continuing influence, see here. 55:00 – See Dr. Turkheimer's paper on the “nonshared environment”—E in the ACE model. 57:00 – A study coming out of the Minnesota Study of Twins reared apart. A New York Times article recounting some of the interesting anecdata in the Minnesota Study. 1:00:00 – See Dr. Turkheimer's 2000 paper on the “three laws of behavior genetics.” Note that this is not, in fact, Dr. Turkheimer's most cited paper (though it is very well cited). 1:03:00 – For another view of the state of behavior genetics in the postgenomic era, see here. 1:11:00 – For Dr. Turkheimer's work on poverty, heritability, and IQ, see here. 1:13:00 – A recent large-scale analysis of birth order effects on personality. 1:16:00 – For Dr. Turkheimer's take on the missing heritability problem, see here and here.    1:19:00 – A recent study on the missing heritability problem in the case of height. 1:30:00 – On the dark side of IQ, see Chapter 9 of Dr. Turkheimer's book. See also Radiolab's series on g. 1:31:00 – See Dr. Turkheimer's Substack, The Gloomy Prospect.   Recommendations The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Paige Harden Intelligence, Stuart Ritchie Intelligence and How to Get It, Richard Nisbett ‘Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'' (Ted talk), James Flynn   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation to Indiana University. The show is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala. Subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also now subscribe to the Many Minds newsletter here! We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. 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Do you really deserve the credit for your accomplishments? Should college admissions be determined by lottery? And how did Mike's contribution to a charity auction change his life?  SOURCES:Warren Buffett, investor and philanthropist.James Flynn, political philosopher at the University of Otago.Robert Frank, professor emeritus of management at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.Rogé Karma, staff writer at The Atlantic.Nicholas Lemann, professor of journalism and dean emeritus at Columbia Journalism School.Daniel Markovits, professor of law at Yale Law School.Charles Munger, investor and philanthropist.John Rawls, 20th-century legal and political philosopher.Guy Raz, creator and host of How I Built This and Wisdom from the Top; founder and C.E.O. of Built-It Productions.Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University.Martin Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.Ryan Smith, founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics; owner of the Utah Jazz. RESOURCES:The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel (2020).The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, by Daniel Markovits (2019)."'The Meritocracy Trap,' Explained," by Rogé Karma (Vox, 2019)."Reflections About Intelligence Over 40 Years," by James Flynn (Intelligence, 2018)."Here's Why Warren Buffett Says That He and Charlie Munger Are Successful," by Emmie Martin (CNBC, 2018).Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert Frank (2016).The Lottery, film by Madeleine Sackler (2010).The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, by Nicholas Lemann (1999).“The Psychology of Human Misjudgment,” speech by Charles Munger (1995). EXTRAS:"What's the Point of I.Q. Testing?" by No Stupid Questions (2023)."What's So Bad About Nepotism?" by No Stupid Questions (2022).

After a bit of hiatus, the Goosed.ie Podcast is back, in this mini-series Jon interviews 6 of Ireland's most interesting tech startups to find out who they are, what they do, and why they do it. And of course, Martin, Alex, and Dean will pop by for chats on all things tech. To kick off the new series we caught up with James Flynn the CEO and Founder of Coso.ai, merging social media content creation with Artificial Intelligence. Coso.ai automatically populates your social content calendar with optimal content based on the latest trends that resonate with your target audience.

Who's to blame? Adam Driver, Matt Damon or one of the Spoilermen? Find out the answer to this question and more on this very special Patreon request episode of Spoilers! Thanks "Swole!" ****** Jean de Carrouges is a respected knight known for his bravery and skill on the battlefield. Jacques Le Gris is a squire whose intelligence and eloquence makes him one of the most admired nobles in court. When Le Gris viciously assaults Carrouges' wife, she steps forward to accuse her attacker, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat, a grueling duel to the death, places the fate of all three in God's hands. Release date: October 15, 2021 (USA) Director: Ridley Scott Screenplay: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Nicole Holofcener Budget: 100 million USD Adapted from: The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France Producers: Ridley Scott, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Nicole Holofcener, Kevin J. Walsh, Jennifer Fox, James Flynn

Host: Geoffrey D. CalhounGuest: Haris OrkinIntroductionGeoffrey D. Calhoun introduces Haris Orkin, a multifaceted author, video game writer, and screenwriter.Writing Strategies. Screenwriting, Video Games, & NovelsHaris Orkin discusses his transition from screenwriting to novel writing, starting with a screenplay that eventually became his James Bond parody series, "James Flynn."He emphasizes the challenge of moving from scriptwriting to prose, and his journey of learning and adapting his style for novel writing.Orkin's first book did well, leading to sequels, including the fourth book released two months prior to the podcast.Concept Behind James Flynn SeriesOrkin explains the series' concept, likening it to a modern-day Don Quixote.The protagonist, envisioned as a mix of Marvel superhero and James Bond, is a patient in a mental hospital who takes on a delusional secret agent persona.The series blends humor and adventure, as Flynn navigates his delusions and real-world challenges.Adapting Classics with a TwistCalhoun praises the innovative approach of blending classic literature with modern elements.Orkin elaborates on the uniqueness of writing comedy in novels and the nuances of getting comic timing right in written form.Transition Across Different Writing MediumsOrkin shares insights on the differences between writing for screenplays, video games, and novels.He highlights the importance of character development and conflict across all mediums.Special focus is given to how video game writing requires considering player agency and interaction.The Role of Voice Directing in Video GamesOrkin discusses his role in casting and voice directing in video games.He emphasizes the importance of allowing actors freedom in their performance to bring authenticity and freshness to the characters.Closing ThoughtsThe podcast concludes with Calhoun expressing his interest in the James Flynn series and its unique comedic style.Call to action: Encouraging listeners to subscribe, share, and join the discussion on thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com.Recommended Action Items:Read Haris Orkin's James Flynn Series: Explore how classic literature can be reimagined in modern settings.Join the Community: Share thoughts and engage in discussions on screenwriting techniques at thesuccessfulscreenwriter.com.Resources:Haris Orkin's Books: https://www.harisorkin.com/copy-of-goldhammerThe Successful Screenwriter Website: thesuccessfulscreenwriter.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4506618/advertisement

Dr. James Flynn has been a teacher, coach, Assistant Principal, Principal of the Grades 3-6 Intermediate School in Burlington City, Principal of Burlington City High School, and is currently the Director of Planning/Research, Evaluation, Operations, and State and Federal Programs for the Burlington City School District, Burlington, New Jersey.  Jim's principal practice included a number […]

We are excited to host our first two-on-two episode this season with Varun Ramakrishnan and James Flynn from General Atlantic – a leading global growth equity investor. Both Varun and James graduated from University of Pennsylvania, and have diverse backgrounds. Varun previously held machine learning and software engineering roles at various startups, while James gained experience in growth-stage VC at Georgian and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Join us as they delve into their current roles at General Atlantic, their approach to technology investing, the cost structures of AI, how companies are adapting to AI, and AI's role in their daily workflows. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nyu-svs/support

This is the story of James Flynn from coso.ai, sharing his journey in building a SaaS (Software as a Service) business. Developing a software platform from scratch is an epic challenge, and this presents an opportunity for you to learn from James's successes, failures, and everything in between.In this candid conversation, James shares his story of developing the original software, ConnectMor, and then pivoting that product to coso.ai. Changing direction when you receive new information or the market shifts is vital for any entrepreneur, and seeing how James navigated this provides great learning for anyone in business.There is a huge amount to learn from James's experience, and I really hope you enjoy and get great value from this episode. Make sure to share it with anyone in business or anyone who's thinking about starting a business.

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James E. Flynn Jr. and Elisa D'Amico have a candid and engaging conversation about how he and Riah Greathouse formed a successful partnership in their law practice. James and Raya, who are referred to as the "dream team," share their journey of how they met and bonded over their similar legal paths. They discuss their common experiences and personal ambitions, highlighting the growth mindset that drives them to achieve more together. James shares a story about his encounter with a successful lawyer, Larry Belz, who became his mentor and helped him venture into mass torts. With the guidance of Belz, James expanded his practice to represent minorities in cases involving baby formula and motor vehicle accidents. The discussion delves into the importance of branding and marketing in the legal industry, with James sharing how he manifested his brand, "Your Southside Lawyer." He emphasizes the significance of having a strong brand that resonates with clients and creates a meaningful connection. The video also touches on the representation of minorities in the legal field and the need for diversity and inclusion. James and Riah partnership demonstrates the power of collaboration and the benefits of bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences to build a successful law firm. Overall, the video sheds light on the journey of two successful lawyers, their commitment to excellence, and their dedication to serving their clients' needs. It also highlights the significance of diversity and inclusivity in the legal profession.   https://www.flynnlawoffices.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-e-flynn-jr-59a43716/   Remember to subscribe and follow us on social media…   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mass-tort-news Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/masstortnewsorg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/masstortnews.org

I'm excited to get guests in the studio again after a break of a few months, but what have I been doing in the meantime? Well, I hosted a few open mics, realised I've secretly been a comedian this whole time, and I tidied my room. I was recently interviewed by James Flynn. You can read about it here.

În anul 1984, un cercetător neo-zeelandez cu origini americane, James Flynn, efectua un studiu pe istoria testelor IQ atunci când a observat o ciudățenie. Anume că, din 1905, anul în care psihologii francezi Alfred Nibet și Theodore Simon creau precursoarele testelor IQ, și până la data efectuării studiului, coeficientul de inteligență al celor testați creștea în medie, cu 0.33% pe an. Mai exact, cu circa 3% la fiecare deceniu. Însă lucrurile au luat o turnură neașteptată în ultimele decenii. Mai exact, de pe la finalul secolului al XX-lea, coeficientul de inteligență obținut în urma clasicelor teste IQ a început să scadă. Iar scăderea nu este una constantă. Mai degrabă, este vorba de 0,5 până la 2 procente per deceniu, în unele cazuri chiar 6 procente. Este, în schimb, pentru prima dată când se înregistrează așa ceva. Story: Adrian Nicolae | Sound: Adi Iacob

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The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock, lying one mile to the westward of the village of Withyham, upon the Kent and Sussex border. It was on the 15th September last that an agricultural labourer, James Flynn, perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock. A few paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken binocular glasses. Finally, among some nettles in the ditch, he caught sight of a flat, canvas-backed book, which proved to be a note-book with detachable leaves, some of which had come loose and were fluttering along the base of the hedge. These he collected, but some, including the first, were never recovered, and leave a deplorable hiatus in this all-important statement. The note-book was taken by the labourer to his master, who in turn showed it to Dr. J. H. Atherton, of Hartfield. This gentleman at once recognized the need for an expert examination, and the manuscript was forwarded to the Aero Club in London, where it now lies. I will now give the narrative exactly as it stands, beginning at page three of the blood-soaked note-book... My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Email me at: michaelsword7@gmail.com Attribution for music used: Water Lily Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We sit down with Professional Hard Enduro and Endurocross rider James Flynn. James gives his thoughts on the first round of the US Hard Enduro Series, some insight into his training and thoughts about the rest of the upcoming season, and how consistent progress, no matter how small, can make huge gains in the long run. Find James: Instagram: @james_flynn_55 Youtube: @jamesflynn8366 Enduro Method Links: Enduro Method is an online strength and conditioning program built for those who ride by those who ride. We are Professional coaches dedicated to building the best and most revolutionary off-the-bike training for dirt bikers around. We are offering a special discount to our podcast listeners…use discount code empodcast22 for 50% off your first month of subscription. Website: https://enduromethod.com The gram: https://www.instagram.com/enduromethod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enduromethod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@enduromethod Got questions? Podcast topics? Interested in training? Send us a DM on the socials or send us an email at info@enduromethod.com!

Gravel Union Talks is a podcast series full of inspiring stories, news and events from the world of gravel biking. Each month hosts Carlo and Olly will be chatting with guests who are passionate about riding off the beaten track… adventure riding, bike packing and gravel racing. In this episode:Loek Luijbregts from FatPigeon.cc     Gravel Union Talks podcast with hosts Carlo van Nistelrooy and Olly Townsend.GU's editor-in-chief Olly on last month's most popular articles on the Gravel Union platform.Want to bring in ideas for topics or guests?Mail Olly at info@gravelunion.cc Check out our platform and socialswww.gravelunion.ccInsta: @gravel_unionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GravelUnion/Komoot: https://www.komoot.nl/user/1080024447202Thanks for listening. Please share a review, like and share!Don't forget: join us now for a free membership with loads of benefits! https://members.gravelunion.ccMore info on FatPigeon Video an Photography:https://www.fatpigeon.cc/Stories on Gravel Union mentioned in the podcast:Gravel Inspiration - How to prepare for a long rideIn an ideal world we'd all have endless time, energy and finances in place to allow us to ride our gravel bikes as far as we wanted whenever we wanted. But in real life, we're more likely to only have a small window to get our fix of gravelly fun. But if you want to do bigger rides in the future, how should you go about it? We asked for 24hour solo MTB champion Rachel Sokal to give us her top tips.Travel Gravel - Finding out the hard wayThe tourist board version of cycling in Tuscany is all strade bianche, Cyprus trees silhouetted on the skyline and Fiat 500s puttering through ancient villages. But as James Flynn finds out, the glossy tourist version doesn't quite match the reality.Gravel Inspiration - Riding the Rebellion Way The flatlands of Norfolk might not be somewhere you would instantly think of as a gravel riding mecca, but UK-based charity CyclingUK are hoping to change people's perceptions with the launch of a bikepacking new route, The Rebellion Way. Claire Frecknall headed over for the launch and sent back this great report.

Selam Fularsızlar. Geldik bu serinin en başında "Aptallaşıyor muyuz" diye sormama sebep olan şeye. Son 100 yıldır IQ testi performansında sürekli bir artış var. Gerçekten de dedelerimizden ninelerimizden daha mı zekiyiz? Ve bu artışın son yıllarda durması, hatta gerilemesi (Anti-Flynn) ne anlama geliyor? İlginizi çekerse kaynaklar kısmındaki linklere bakmayı unutmayın.(Bunca bölümdür devam etmemi sağlayan tek şey, Patreon'dan irili ufaklı destek veren sizin gibi dinleyiciler. Bu destek doğrudan bana geliyor, normal reklam gelirleri ise yapımcımla paylaşılıyor. Yok kalsın diyorsanız, buyrun buradan yakın: Safsatalar Ansiklopedisi Kısaltılmış Edisyon).----------------------------------------------------Bu podcast, Hiwell hakkında reklam içerir.Hiwell hakkında daha detaylı bilgi almak ve fular100 kodu ile %20 indirimden faydalanmak için tıklayın.----------------------------------------------------.Bölümler:(00:05) Flynn Etkisi'ne giriş.(03:05) Robert Plomin'in "default" pozisyonu.(03:50) Singapurlular bu kadar zeki olmamalıydılar.(05:10) James Flynn.(06:30) Niye daha önce farkedilmedi?(07:35) İdamların bozulması.(08:20) Heterosis.(10:00) Beslenme ve Hollanda Kıtlığı.(12:15) Eğitim ve Türkiye'de okullaşma.(13:55) Soyut mantığın ve analojilerin gelişimi.(18:30) İşlerin soyutlaşması.(19:00) Eğlencenin soyutlaşması.(21:55) "Everything Bad is Good For You".(23:40) Endüstriyel Devrim'in yankıları.(25:00) Gelişme genel zekada mı?(29:15) Flynn Etkisinin tersine dönmesi.(32:00) Sonraki bölüm.(32:40) Patronlar, patronlarımız.(33:10) After Credits: Jensen vs Flynn.Kaynaklar:Zekanın Yükselişi ve Çöküşü: Flynn, Anti-Flynn ve Zekanın GeleceğiThe Flynn Effect: A Meta-analysisWhy our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James FlynnDünyada ve Türkiye'de Yükseköğretim Okullaşma Oranları ve GelişmelerWhy has TV storytelling become so complex?Is the World's Memory Span Increasing or Decreasing?The rise and fall of the Flynn Effect as a reason to expect a narrowing of the Black–White IQ gapModernity Made Us SmarterNorwegian IQ scores are falling – but genes are not to blameDO NON-G GAINS FROM THE FLYNN EFFECT MATTER? YES AND NOArthur Jensen and John Stuart MillKitap: Are We Getting Smarter?Kitap: Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us SmarterJohnny Carson.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A new Irish music scholarship has been established in memory of a Causeway woman and her husband who died nine days apart during the pandemic. Amanda Johnson is the daughter of Elizabeth Bishop and the step-daughter of James Flynn. Jerry speaks to Amanda and to William Foote who’s the centre director of the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London. For more information go to: https://irishculturalcentre.giftpro.co.uk/events/the-elizabeth-bishop-and-james-flynn-scholarhsip-showcase/

Political campaigner James Flynn joins Jonathan for a conversation about the techniques, tactics and strategies of contemporary political campaigning, followed by analysis of the recently concluded federal election in Australia. James Flynn has run 19 campaigns across federal, state and local levels, including House and Senate races in the most recent federal election. He has served as an advisor to ministers and MPs across all levels of government and has worked in business (tech sector). The Political Animals is hosted by Dr Jonathan Cole, an academic, writer, speaker and translator specialising in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. Jonathan was a senior terrorism analyst at Australian intelligence agency the Office of National Assessments where he worked on Islamist terrorism and the global jihadist movement. He is the author of Christian Political Theology in an Age of Discontent: Mediating Scripture, Doctrine, and Political Reality. You can follow Jonathan and the show on Twitter and Facebook.

Nacida como Betty Walden Johnson en Ironton, Ohio, en 1931, Betty pasó por muchos nombres durante su vida, como resultado de sus cinco matrimonios. Su padre era minero de carbón, pero luego se mudó con la familia a Florida para trabajar en los ferrocarriles.Se graduó de la escuela secundaria en 1949 y se casó por primera vez cuando tenía 18 años de edad; se volvería a casar en cuatro ocasiones más.A lo largo de su vida se dedicó a abrir y administrar diversos salones de belleza.El primer esposo de Betty Neumar fue un sujeto de nombre Clarence Malone, pero la unión no duró mucho. En 1951, afirmó en documentos judiciales que Malone abusó de ella. Su matrimonio produjo un hijo, Gary, que fue adoptado por el segundo marido de Betty, James A. Flynn.Según la historia de Betty, no está claro cuándo conoció o se casó con James Flynn. Ella le dijo a los investigadores que su entonces esposo "murió en un muelle "en algún lugar de Nueva York a mediados de la década de 1950. Inclusive, Neumar le dijo a la gente que Flynn había muerto en un camión, congelado, o que le habían disparado.Su hijo Gary perdería la vida en una muerte violenta en 1985, con un disparo de arma de fuego, en un presunto suicidio. Betty cobró un pago de $10,000 como su beneficiario.Antes de que Betty conociera a Harold Gentry en 1967, habría tenido otro matriomonio con el marino Richard Sills. Más tarde, Betty y Harold se encontrarían en Florida, donde estaba instalado con el Ejército de los EE.UU.Harold y Betty se casaron en 1968 y Kellie nació un año después.Después del asesinato de Gentry en 1986, Neumar no se volvió a casar hasta 1991, cuando se casó con su último marido, John Neumar, de quien adoptó su apellido hasta su muerte.Los registros y entrevistas con familiares y policías pintan a Neumar como una matriarca dominante consumida por el dinero; sin embargo, nunca se le pudo comprobar que ella asesinó a su primogénito y a sus cinco esposos.¿Víctima de la desgracia o una asesina serial sigilosa y malvada?

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Author and YouTuber James Flynn is here to talk not only about his new book, ‘The Hand That Pulls You Under,' but also his crush on one of Juliette Lewis' most beloved roles, Mallory Knox in ‘Natural Born Killers.' Find James Flynn Below: Official Site: https://egorone9.wixsite.com/jamesflynn YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/artistjamesflynn Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JamesFlynndotorg Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hand-That-Pulls-You-Under-ebook/dp/B095S4PWBB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hand+pulls+james+flynn&qid=1622776998&sr=8-1 Crushgasm: Official Site: https://crushgasmpodcast.wordpress.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrushgasmPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crushgasmpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crushgasm Anchor: https://anchor.fm/crushgasm Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/crushgasm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5fMDy4_uGsQ-izsXURCXA --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crushgasm/support

James Flynn's artwork has taken on many forms over the years. As a child he enjoyed drawing faces, and although this particular pleasure would return later in life, his teenage years led him into a very different corner of the art world. During the late 1990's James got lured into the thriving London graffiti scene. This huge art movement, which had spread out from New York in the 1980's, completely engulfed him and changed his life. His childhood portraits gave way to edgy, letter-based designs, and spray paint became his preferred medium. Getting his artwork up across the walls and train lines of London was the only thing that mattered to him for many years, spurring on a new stage of his artistic evolution, but his participation in this underground scene could not last forever. Graffiti was turning him into a criminal, and after a few brushes with the law (as well as brushes with death whilst walking along busy train tracks at night) he decided to turn his attention back to traditional and safer forms of art. After focusing on letter-based designs for so long he was craving the more intricate nature of portraiture once again, and in his early twenties he began creating a new body of work. Combining all of his learned methods into one, he developed his style and execution in a big way. From around 2008 to 2016 James produced countless portraits, and even began to branch out into figurative work. This was an immensely creative time for him, but another evolutionary step was about to take place. With so many ideas running through his head, James began to feel frustrated by the limitations of visual art. He had so many visions that he wanted to portray, so many things that he wanted to express, but the medium he was using simply wouldn't allow it. It was during this creative crisis that he decided to start writing. As James recalls: ‘Visual art can portray a hell of a lot, anyone who's ever “lost themselves” in a painting can definitely vouch for that, but it still has less dimensions than writing. My creative streak was on overdrive and I needed an outlet for it, I needed a way to express it, and a book seemed like the only way to do it.' His debut novel was published in early 2017, and at the time it was his biggest ever artistic pursuit. Conservation, a work of SF horror, contains James Flynn's own blood, sweat and tears, and the book also symbolises the broadening of his artistic passion. Conservation changed the direction of James's art, and it led him to create and publish several more books. James Flynn grew up in Kent, England.His ultimate dream as an author is to cause a reader to be confined to a mental institution and sectioned under the mental health act after reading one of his stories, although he admits that this is a bit optimistic.James's work has appeared in Black Petals Magazine, Yellow Mama Magazine, The Scare Room Podcast, Weird Mask Magazine, and the short story anthology Local Haunts.www.jamesflynn.org

Algumas pessoas são mais inteligentes do que outras? Será que existe uma influência genética para as pessoas serem mais inteligentes? Para responder essas e outras perguntas dessa temática, trouxemos o pesquisador Dr. Bruno Sauce, especialista na área. Neste episódio, exploramos as definições de inteligência, o teste de QI como uma ferramenta cientificamente válida, as influências genéticas e ambientais e a possibilidade de treinar as pessoas para serem mais inteligentes. Bruno Sauce é biólogo e mestre em genética e evolução, pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos. É mestre em Psicologia pela Universidade de Rutgers nos EUA e PhD em Neurociência e comportamento também pela Universidade de Rutgers. Atualmente é professor assistente do Departamento de Psicologia Biológica da Universidade de Vrije (Amsterdã, Holanda), onde leciona Genética Comportamental para os cursos de graduação e mestrado. Possui projetos de pesquisa relacionados à interação entre genética e ambiente no desenvolvimento cognitivo. Bruno Sauce (Google Scholar) https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=-vm7-1kAAAAJ ------------------Apoie o Canal------------ https://apoia.se/universogeneralista ------------------Youtube------------------ https://www.youtube.com/c/UniversoGeneralista Canal de cortes: http://shorturl.at/hDKR1 ------------------Redes Sociais------------ https://www.instagram.com/universogeneralista/ https://twitter.com/UGeneralista ---- Corrida de Montanha e Sandália Ancestral ---- Vitor Carrara oferece treinamento para corrida de montanha, vivências em Ilhabela (SP) e confecção artesanal de sandália para corrida. https://www.instagram.com/vitor_ancestral_carrara/ ---- Tratamento de áudio ---- Allan Spirandelli https://www.instagram.com/allanspirandelli/ --------ASSUNTOS DO EPISÓDIO------- (0:00) - Introdução (0:52) - Currículo de Bruno Sauce (1:30) - Histórico de Bruno Sauce (Ciência, Genética e Psicologia) (8:28) - O que é inteligência? (15:17) - Ferramentas para se medir a inteligência (23:13) - A Validade do Teste de QI (29:58) - O QI e as predições: estudos longitudinais (33:48) - O impacto da motivação no Teste de QI (36:30) - A Teoria das Múltiplas Inteligências (47:09) - QI: A inteligência analisada através de Habilidades (52:31) - Distribuição de Score de QI em um mesmo país (57:17) - Encontro com James Flynn e o que é o Efeito Flynn (1:09:49) - Comparação de indivíduos de uma mesma população (1:12:22) - Fatores genéticos e ambientais na inteligência (1:20:19) - Estudos com Gêmeos e a correlação com pais biológicos (1:27:43) - Quando o ambiente influencia muito na inteligência (1:34:10) - O que são os Scores Poligênicos? (1:44:03) - Fatores cognitivos e de personalidade na inteligência (1:53:30) - A seleção de embriões e os perigos da eugenia (2:05:19) - Score Poligênico e possíveis problemas éticos (2:07:02) - A inteligência, os limites ambientais e a sorte --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/universogeneralista/message

The Grinding Stone Hard Enduro will be going down on March 21st in Page, Arizona, and is being hosted by the Rockstars MC. This will be the inaugural race for the club, and also the first round of the AMA Kenda Extreme Offroad Championship. We talked to promoter, Jim Flynn, and his son and pro hard enduro athlete, James Flynn, about 2021 and covered a bunch of details about the race. With the race coming up soon, Jim and James discuss everything from the course, main obstacles, spectator viewing, pit setup, tire selection, things to do in the surrounding area, and much more.For more information about the Grinding Stone Hard Enduro, visit their social media and signup pages below!https://www.facebook.com/grindstoneazhttps://www.livelaps.com/event?4498https://www.instagram.com/grindingstoneexc/?hl=enFor more extreme moto content, follow us at @elevatedactionsports on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Tik Tok.

Podcast: Many Minds Episode: Culture, innovation, and the collective brainRelease date: 2021-02-03Greetings friends and happy February! Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. Michael's research takes on a suite of topics that all start from a single big question: Why are we so different from other animals? Part of the answer has to do with our neural hardware. There's no question we've got big brains—and Michael has some cool things to say about why they may have gotten so big. But Michael is just as focused on our cultural software—the tools and ideas we develop, tweak, share, and accumulate over time. You might say he's more impressed by our collective brains than by our individual brains. To study all this, Michael builds formal theories and computational models; he runs experiments; and he constructs and analyzes huge databases. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. We talk about the finding that the size and interconnectedness of a social group affects the cultural skills that group can develop and maintain. We consider what actually powers innovation (hint: it's not lone geniuses). We discuss how diversity is a bit double-edged and why psychology needs to become a historical science. And that, my friends, is hardly all—we also touch on cetaceans, religious history, and spinning plates. I've been hoping to have Michael on the show for months now. His work is deeply theoretical, advancing the basic science of what it means to be human. But it's also engaged with important practical issues—issues like corruption and cultural diversity. Without further ado, here's my conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna. Enjoy! A transcript of this show is available here.   Notes and links 4:30 - An introduction to “dual inheritance theory.” 11:00 - A 2013 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues about the relationship between sociality and cultural complexity. 12:15 - A paper on the loss of cultural tools and traditions in the Tasmanian case. 21:20 – A 2016 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich on innovation and the collective brain. 28:30 - The original paper on the notion of cultural “tightness” and “looseness.” 30:20 - A recent short piece by Dr. Muthukrishna on the paradox of diversity. 34:50 - A 2019 popular piece of mine on the phenomenon of “global WEIRDing.” 40:27 - The so-called Flynn Effect refers to the puzzling rise of IQ scores over time. It is named after James Flynn, who died only weeks ago. 42:30 - A paper about the significance of Luria's work on abstract reasoning in Uzbekistan. 50:26 - A paper on the “cultural brain hypothesis,” the subject of Dr. Muthukrishna's dissertation. 51:00 - A paper on brains as fundamentally “expensive.” 58:00 - Boyd & Richardson, mentioned here, have authored a number of highly influential books. The first of these was Culture and the Evolutionary Process. 59:35 - A 2015 paper on head size and emergency birth interventions. 1:01:20 - The stylized model we mention here is discussed and illustrated in this lecture from the 2020 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute. 1:03:15 – The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on cetacean brains and culture. 1:11:38 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on ‘Psychology as a Historical Science.' 1:14:00 - The 2020 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues introducing a tool for the measurement of cultural distance. 1:20:20 – Dr. Muthukrishna is part of the team behind the Database of Religious History. 1:24:25 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joe Henrich on ‘The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation.'   Dr. Muthukrishna's end-of-show reading recommendations: Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success & The WEIRDest People in the World Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas  You can keep up with Dr. Muthukrishna's work at his personal website and on Twitter (@mmuthukrishna).   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://www.diverseintelligencessummer.com/, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster, and Associate Director Hilda Loury. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/. You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

Podcast: Many Minds (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% )Episode: Culture, innovation, and the collective brainRelease date: 2021-02-03Greetings friends and happy February! Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. Michael's research takes on a suite of topics that all start from a single big question: Why are we so different from other animals? Part of the answer has to do with our neural hardware. There's no question we've got big brains—and Michael has some cool things to say about why they may have gotten so big. But Michael is just as focused on our cultural software—the tools and ideas we develop, tweak, share, and accumulate over time. You might say he's more impressed by our collective brains than by our individual brains. To study all this, Michael builds formal theories and computational models; he runs experiments; and he constructs and analyzes huge databases. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. We talk about the finding that the size and interconnectedness of a social group affects the cultural skills that group can develop and maintain. We consider what actually powers innovation (hint: it's not lone geniuses). We discuss how diversity is a bit double-edged and why psychology needs to become a historical science. And that, my friends, is hardly all—we also touch on cetaceans, religious history, and spinning plates. I've been hoping to have Michael on the show for months now. His work is deeply theoretical, advancing the basic science of what it means to be human. But it's also engaged with important practical issues—issues like corruption and cultural diversity. Without further ado, here's my conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna. Enjoy! A transcript of this show is available here.   Notes and links 4:30 - An introduction to “dual inheritance theory.” 11:00 - A 2013 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues about the relationship between sociality and cultural complexity. 12:15 - A paper on the loss of cultural tools and traditions in the Tasmanian case. 21:20 – A 2016 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich on innovation and the collective brain. 28:30 - The original paper on the notion of cultural “tightness” and “looseness.” 30:20 - A recent short piece by Dr. Muthukrishna on the paradox of diversity. 34:50 - A 2019 popular piece of mine on the phenomenon of “global WEIRDing.” 40:27 - The so-called Flynn Effect refers to the puzzling rise of IQ scores over time. It is named after James Flynn, who died only weeks ago. 42:30 - A paper about the significance of Luria's work on abstract reasoning in Uzbekistan. 50:26 - A paper on the “cultural brain hypothesis,” the subject of Dr. Muthukrishna's dissertation. 51:00 - A paper on brains as fundamentally “expensive.” 58:00 - Boyd & Richardson, mentioned here, have authored a number of highly influential books. The first of these was Culture and the Evolutionary Process. 59:35 - A 2015 paper on head size and emergency birth interventions. 1:01:20 - The stylized model we mention here is discussed and illustrated in this lecture from the 2020 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute. 1:03:15 – The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on cetacean brains and culture. 1:11:38 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on ‘Psychology as a Historical Science.' 1:14:00 - The 2020 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues introducing a tool for the measurement of cultural distance. 1:20:20 – Dr. Muthukrishna is part of the team behind the Database of Religious History. 1:24:25 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joe Henrich on ‘The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation.'   Dr. Muthukrishna's end-of-show reading recommendations: Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success & The WEIRDest People in the World Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas  You can keep up with Dr. Muthukrishna's work at his personal website and on Twitter (@mmuthukrishna).   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://www.diverseintelligencessummer.com/), which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster, and Associate Director Hilda Loury. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/). Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/). You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

Greetings friends and happy February! Today’s episode is a conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. Michael’s research takes on a suite of topics that all start from a single big question: Why are we so different from other animals? Part of the answer has to do with our neural hardware. There’s no question we’ve got big brains—and Michael has some cool things to say about why they may have gotten so big. But Michael is just as focused on our cultural software—the tools and ideas we develop, tweak, share, and accumulate over time. You might say he’s more impressed by our collective brains than by our individual brains. To study all this, Michael builds formal theories and computational models; he runs experiments; and he constructs and analyzes huge databases. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. We talk about the finding that the size and interconnectedness of a social group affects the cultural skills that group can develop and maintain. We consider what actually powers innovation (hint: it’s not lone geniuses). We discuss how diversity is a bit double-edged and why psychology needs to become a historical science. And that, my friends, is hardly all—we also touch on cetaceans, religious history, and spinning plates. I’ve been hoping to have Michael on the show for months now. His work is deeply theoretical, advancing the basic science of what it means to be human. But it’s also engaged with important practical issues—issues like corruption and cultural diversity. Without further ado, here’s my conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna. Enjoy! A transcript of this show will be available soon.   Notes and links 4:30 - An introduction to “dual inheritance theory.” 11:00 - A 2013 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues about the relationship between sociality and cultural complexity. 12:15 - A paper on the loss of cultural tools and traditions in the Tasmanian case. 21:20 – A 2016 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich on innovation and the collective brain. 28:30 - The original paper on the notion of cultural “tightness” and “looseness.” 30:20 - A recent short piece by Dr. Muthukrishna on the paradox of diversity. 34:50 - A 2019 popular piece of mine on the phenomenon of “global WEIRDing.” 40:27 - The so-called Flynn Effect refers to the puzzling rise of IQ scores over time. It is named after James Flynn, who died only weeks ago. 42:30 - A paper about the significance of Luria’s work on abstract reasoning in Uzbekistan. 50:26 - A paper on the “cultural brain hypothesis,” the subject of Dr. Muthukrishna’s dissertation. 51:00 - A paper on brains as fundamentally “expensive.” 58:00 - Boyd & Richardson, mentioned here, have authored a number of highly influential books. The first of these was Culture and the Evolutionary Process. 59:35 - A 2015 paper on head size and emergency birth interventions. 1:01:20 - The stylized model we mention here is discussed and illustrated in this lecture from the 2020 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute. 1:03:15 – The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on cetacean brains and culture. 1:11:38 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues on ‘Psychology as a Historical Science.’ 1:14:00 - The 2020 paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and colleagues introducing a tool for the measurement of cultural distance. 1:20:20 – Dr. Muthukrishna is part of the team behind the Database of Religious History. 1:24:25 - The paper by Dr. Muthukrishna and Joe Henrich on ‘The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation.’   Dr. Muthukrishna’s end-of-show reading recommendations: Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success & The WEIRDest People in the World Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas  You can keep up with Dr. Muthukrishna’s work at his personal website and on Twitter (@mmuthukrishna).   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://www.diverseintelligencessummer.com/), which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster, and Associate Director Hilda Loury. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/). Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/). You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

In the December 1967 issue of Flying Saucer Review, there appeared an article written by Jerome Clark titled “Why UFOs Are Hostile.” In it, he presents a few cases and a load of speculation as to why UFOs are hostile. One of the stories presented is that of James Flynn, a Florida resident who had been sleeping in a swamp when he was awoken by his dogs barking. He witnessed a craft, and claimed that it rendered him unconscious for 24 hours. The article is largely supported by heavy speculation, and had little to actually back it. By and large, in the United States, UFOs were relatively tame. They seemed more curious than harmful. Thomas Mantell’s death couldn’t be exclusively proven to have been at the hands of a UFO, and the disappearance of Felix Moncla was mysterious, but still remained unknown. In Brazil, however, they started to earn the reputation of a country that suffered from its UFO sightings. In the late 70s, a flap of UFO activity occurred that resulted in serious injury, and even the deaths of Brazilian residents around the city of Colares in northern Brazil. Resources: Operação Prato Documents  Music “Plate Statis” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue) “Twitch FS” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue) “Brimevil Pulsating” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue) “Plate Grayscale” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue) “Darkened Treeline” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue) Theme Song by Big Cats Art and Web Design by the Great Desdymona

I dagens avsnitt bland annat: Register med fler än 2 miljoner medlemmar i Kinas kommunistparti läckt till medier, författaren John le Carré och Flynneffektens upptäckare James Flynn går ur tiden, antitrustmål mot Facebook efter företagets förvärv av Whatsapp och Instagram, Marocko erkänner Israel mot USA:s stöd för kungadömets anspråk på omstritt territorium i Västsahara, jihadister i Moçambique intensifierar uppror som ämnar etablera kalifat samt Adolf Hitler Uunona vinner regionalval i Namibia https://radio.bubb.la/torsdag-17-december-2020/ Länkar som diskuterades i dagens sändning: Register med fler än 2 miljoner medlemmar i Kinas kommunistparti läckt till medier, avslöjar stor mängd personer som utbildats utomlands och nu arbetar inom utländska företag och myndigheter där de upprättat partiavdelningar som står redo att agera på partiledningens order John le Carré går ur tiden 89 år gammal, författaren vars verkliga namn var David John Moore Cornwell skrev böcker som Mullvaden, Spionen som kom in från kylan och Den lilla trumslagarflickan, flera av romanerna har gestalts i filmer och tv-serier James Flynn död vid 86 års ålder, var statsvetare och filosof som blev mest känd för den så kallade Flynn-effekten, en observation att människor kontinuerligt presterade bättre på intelligenstest under 1900-talet Facebook ställs inför rätta i antitrustmål efter stämning från amerikanska federalstaten och 40 delstater, anklagas för att ha eliminerat konkurrens genom förvärv av Whatsapp och Instagram som målsägande kräver ska avyttras Marocko erkänner Israel efter amerikansk diplomatisk insats, i gengäld ställer sig USA bakom kungadömets anspråk på omstritt territorium i Västsahara, Donald Trump jublar över att hans administration därmed fått fyra arabländer att knyta vänskapsband med den judiska nationen Jihadister i norra Moçambique har intensifierat upproret som ämnar etablera ett kalifat i provinsen Cabo Delgado, militanterna finns nu i 10 av provinsens 17 distrikt och kontrollerar delar av kusten inklusive den strategiska hamnen i Mocímboa da Praia som de erövrade i augusti Adolf Hitler Uunona vinner regionalval i Namibia för SWAPO-partiet, försäkrar han inte har planer på världsherravälde samt poängterar hans namngivare sannolikt inte visste vad den mer kände Adolf Hitler stod för

In conversation with Emeritus Professor James Flynn from the Joint Department of Politics at Otago University, New Zealand. We discuss his new book entitled A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and Universities. We discuss the history of right-wing control of universities during McCarthyism, and the totalitarian persecution that social democrat and liberal academics faced under the pretence of fighting Communism. We also discuss the Flynn Effect and his debates with intelligence researcher Charles Murray in relation to racial differences in IQ. Finally, we discuss his view that fields such as Women’s Studies and Black Studies are too ideologically driven, and why he believes neither the far left nor the far right truly believes in freedom of speech.

My first guest is a world-renowned political and moral philosopher, University of Otago's Emeritus Professor James Flynn defines what freedom of speech is and why it's so important to us all.  Music: Kyrie from Bach B Minor Mass conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner Buy it here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232-cum-sancto-spiritu/1053521016

University of Pennsylvania and Squash Canada standout James Flynn performed at perhaps his highest level to date in 2019/20 with a win over Victor Crouin in the US collegiate individual event and stretching Sam Todd to 5 games in the Dutch Junior Open quarter final. James is proud of the way last season turned out, but he's under no illusions that he and his Penn teammates will be back on court soon. This fun chat looks at all of the above, his take on the current College Squash Association situation, and also James' vision on life after college squash.

Undertaking was a new profession in the 1860s and 1870s--and an entrepreneurial type of family business. Undertakers had to deploy the skills of embalming, coffin making, and stabling horses. They had to balance the books of a small business, while not appearing to take advantage of folks in mourning. They had to have the ability to calm and console. The pioneering Irish undertakers of the 1860s and 1870s were trusted and known to neighbors and friends--Thomas McLane and Mark McGorray on the West Side, Thomas Gallagher downtown, Michael McGreal in Newburgh, and James Flynn moving east along St. Clair, later Superior, then Euclid. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week I sit down with current Iona Rugby B-side player James Flynn. James talks about his fight with trying to making Iona's A side, the dedication and time that he's invested into rugby, and the big plans that he has for his rugby career at Iona and beyond. Source

This week I sit down with current Iona Rugby B-side player James Flynn. James talks about his fight with trying to making Iona’s A side, the dedication and time that he’s invested into rugby, and the big plans that he has for his rugby career at Iona and beyond.

It's a bumper weekend for gaelic games in the county and with fixtures coming back from very late postponements due to horrendous weather to getting played 48 hours later to a large number of games seeing large margins eliminated or overturned, it was all about the comeback this weekend in the Leitrim Football Championships. In the Senior Championship St. Mary's completed a double comeback, their original fixture against Aughawillan fell foul of the weather with all players and supporters inside Aughawillan's beautiful new look club grounds on Saturday evening. When everyone returned on Monday the Carrick side turned the form book on it's head to take control of the tie, but a late Morgan Quinn goal and an injury time penalty looked to have sealed the victory for the home side. Carrick won the kick out and completed their own recovery with a point from Ray Mulvey and a last minute goal from Daire Farrell who outjumped the goalkeeper to find the net. We hear from both Mary's manager Denis Connerton (11:45) and Aughawillan selector Gerry Flanagan (16:16) after the heart attack inducing closing stages of the game. Also in the Senior Championship's Group of Death Fenagh St. Caillins and Mohill met on Saturday with Mohill placing one foot in the Quarter Finals. We'll hear the thoughts of Daniel Beck (17:44) and Eanna Madden (21:25) from the winning side while manager Joe Flynn (23:12) and his centre back Jack Gilheaney (25:40) give the Fenagh point of view. We'll also hear from James Flynn (28:49) of Allen Gaels, where his personal tally of 0-9 helped close an eight point deficit to share the spoils with their neighbours Leitrim Gaels who lost Colm Moreton to a red card in the first half of their clash. In the Ladies Football Senior Championships, Ballinamore Sean O'Heslins made a massive statement about their title ambitions with their blistering start against 3 time champions St. Joseph's. Conor Harte (35:29) & Eilish O'Dowd (38:59) tell us about the work that's gone in behind the scenes in Ballinamore. St. Joseph's Clare Owens (40:54) & Ray McBrien (43:41) share their relief at clawing their way back into the encounter by keeping the scoreboard ticking over in the second half and setting it up for another clash later in the summer. We also hear from the St. Francis victory over St. Brigid's. Gavin Durkin (45:40), manager of St. Francis returns to the show to give his view on his side's first win in the championship. In Intermediate football we're joined by Barry Costello and Paul McGuire (48:40) of Gortletteragh and Mick McCormack (51:19) of Kiltubrid after Gortletteragh edged the tight game in atrocious conditions. Cloone continued their bright start to the Junior championship with a victory over Gortletteragh's second string. We speak to Gavin Reynolds (54:25) of Cloone and captain Padraig McGarry (56:16) of Gortletteragh after the game. Finally we feature the junior ladies clash of St. Francis II and Fenagh on Monday afternoon. Roisin O'Toole (59:47) of Fenagh and Emma Dunne (1:01:40) of St. Francis chat about the different approaches of a first team and a second string in the ladies game in the county.

Garett Jones is one of the smartest people I have ever talked to - and he is at his usual brilliant best in this conversation. We started by trying to see how his latest book fit into the context of less developed countries with weak rule of law. I have often remarked that Garett is underrated as a development economist. I still think so.You can listen or download to the podcast on any platform of your choice (some links here), and you can also rate us here.TranscriptTobi: WeIcome to Ideas Untrapped and today I am on with economist, Garett Jones. Garett Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason University and he has written two excellent books "Hive Mind" and "10% Less Democracy". Welcome, Garett.Garett: Thanks very much for having me, Tobi.Tobi: Thinking on the margin is something I admire so much which is what you did quite well in your latest book 10% Less Democracy. Are economists just better at this than everybody else, and if yes, why?Garett: You're right. I do try to do that a lot in the book. I agree with you, Economists, I think, are better at this than other social scientists because it's just so much a part of our training. It's so normal for us to think, do you want to buy two more peanut butter sandwiches or two fewer? Should this company hire three more workers or fire two workers? So that kind of marginalist thinking which is where... the Marginal Revolution of the 19th century embodies that. Yeah, that really helps us think about big social questions in a very productive way. When I applied this to democracy what I realised it was quickly, something that a lot of people know, which is that all of the things we call democracies are a blend of democracy with oligarchy of one form or another. So getting the balance right is more important than an all-or-nothing question. All or nothing is off the table, thank goodness, but getting the blend right between insiders and outsiders, between elite and the masses, that's something that can be evaluated and fortunately, my economist friends have evaluated it. For some people, they'll quite naturally assume that democracy means an independent judiciary, the rule of law, impartial, fairly uncorrupt government. And those things are not democracy. They are good things but they are not democracy. - GJTobi: So given all the trade-offs that are involved with social decisions and reforms, how can we be better at thinking on the margins? We live in an era of protest movement where people want sweeping changes and that's not really how society works, so how can people better train themselves to be marginalist thinkers?Garett: Yeah, you're right. There aren't that many questions where we have to go all or nothing. Most policy questions can be a question of incrementalism, so I think whenever possible we should just ask ourselves 'if I can dial this up a little bit or dial this down a little bit, which would be the better way to work? Which would be the better way to move?' Whether that's thinking about whether I want my judges to have a little bit longer terms, whether I want my voters to have a little bit more information before they walk into the voting booth, whether I want a healthcare program to be available for people who are 62 rather than 65? Just thinking about it in terms of small changes helps us better evaluate...it helps the mind better weigh the benefits versus the cost of the decision. Because when we talk about revolutionary change, there are often just too many things going on for our brains to even weigh them, to even weigh the benefits, and weigh the costs. So marginalism, I think, is better suited for human minds and fortunately most, but not all, political decisions are well suited to a little more vs a little less.Tobi: I read your book, great book by the way...Garett: Thank you very much.Tobi: The writing is fantastic, I'm a big fan. In the book, I know you are applied the 10% Less Democracy framework to rich countries...Garett: Yeah.Tobi: But I've been trying to extrapolate and apply it to developing countries, and one thing I noticed (you can shed more light on this) is, sometimes it feels like low-income and middle-income countries are torn in some kind of institutional paradox. You have multilateral institutions like [the] IMF who have these prescriptions that are bureaucratic but have long-term benefits - Central Bank independence, don't manipulate the exchange rate, keep inflation low, be responsible with your budget, and all that. And on the other side of that, you have think tanks, aid agencies and other foundations (who are also interested in development and give it advice) who seem to favour radical democratisation of everything, basically. So what do you think, as a policymaker, as a voter in a low and middle-income country, how best to approach this paradox on a mental level?Garett: I think a message that I bring up early on in the book is that most of the clear benefits of democracy come from a moderate level of democracy. As Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate who showed that if you want to avoid famines, what you need is democracy. In modern times there's never been a famine as he defines it in a functioning democracy. But his measure for functioning democracy is a pretty basic one. It's competitive elections and a free press. And that's not too hard a standard for a lot of countries to meet and more countries are meeting it now than they were meeting it, of course, three decades ago though, perhaps, less than a couple of years ago. So if you're pushing for democratisation, I think we should draw on the best evidence we have for what it is, what kind of democracy we need to get the benefits of democracy, and that seems to be a moderate level. Also, there is a lot of lazy talk about democracy where people stuff all of the good things they like into the word democracy. For some people, they'll quite naturally assume that democracy means an independent judiciary, the rule of law, impartial, fairly uncorrupt government. And those things are not democracy. They are good things but they are not democracy. So I think just clearly speaking about what it is that you want is valuable because we realised quickly that the things we like out of modern so-called democracies are a blend of the rule of the people and the rule of insiders, with a third thing that I don't talk much about in the book directly but the rule of law - the impartial rule of law, a bureaucracy that just operates on its own according to [the] rules that have been around for a long time. That is undemocratic and it seems to be very useful. So simply talking clearly about what it is we want in a reform and is this valuable reform truly about the voice of the people or is it more about something like an independent bureaucracy? That would help us get away from this lazy jargon of calling everything good democratic.Tobi: You also discussed the relationship between democracy and growth in your book and you conclude that the evidence is a bit of a muddle. What I was thinking when I was reading that part, I thought about Chile...Garett: Uh-huhTobi: And one of the famous examples when economists and some other thinkers discuss Chile is to look at GDP growth from the Pinochet years and the democratic years, and then they conclude that, oh, GDP growth is higher after Pinochet and hence democracy is better. But again, if you look at that history a bit, you'll see that there were some things, though they weren't palatable and I'm not saying I prefer autocracies here or anything...there were some hard reforms that Pinochet pushed through that clearly had benefits even during the Chilean democracy. One such rule was the inability of the parliament to hike the budget. You either cut it low or you pass it as it is which introduced a lot of fiscal responsibility in the budgeting process. So what do you think is responsible for this muddle in the evidence in the relationship between democracy and growth? Why can't we get a really clear picture?Garett: A big problem is the real-life fact which is just that a lot of autocrats do a terrible job. They come into power and they make the place worse off. So some autocrats come to power and appear to make the country better off, or at least, it predicts better performance and other autocrats come into power and things get worse. So when we stop looking at individual anecdotes and when we pull them together and do something rigorous and statistical, the evidence that autocrats are more likely to create great reforms looked pretty weak. There are plenty of anecdotes, right? We can call them case studies where autocrats are associated with and may have put into place things that look like good pro-growth reforms. Pinochet gets a lot of credit for this kind of stories but also Park Chung-hee of South Korea. The problem is that (a) we don't have a great counterfactual (b) maybe they just got lucky. And that's why using rigorous cross-country comparisons is more useful than individual case studies and when we do that, it's very hard to find evidence that either democracy causes growth or that an autocrat taking over causes growth. It's too much of a coin flip to recommend any particular policy if our goal in choosing a government is economic growth. So this is why we should stick to the things where we have better evidence and so these big changes - autocrat in charge versus free press multi-party democracy, there there's a muddle. That's the reason why the framing in my book 10% Less Democracy is about smaller changes where we have better identified better causal stories with better testings like independent central banks, independent judges. We have more evidence for the small things than we do for the big things.Thinking in marginalist terms is important but also good public education really can improve policy if we teach true important economic ideas to people - GJTobi: Looking at this really well, is it really about voter control? Because I imagine the issues are different, for example, I think voters care a lot about Central Bank independence than, say, a national minimum wage for example. So isn't the case that in some situations or on some issues, again, sticking with Central Bank independence, politicians adjust ill-informed or ignorant and they're not necessarily responding to voter preference?Garett: That's a great point. It's always a good idea to wonder whether the politicians themselves are poorly informed and they don't have an incentive to be very well-informed on most policy issues. A friend of mine had a conversation with the prominent United States politician who I won't name and this person said...the elected official said 'my job isn't to understand all the details of the policy, that's what my staff job is. My job is to keep track of all of the other members of Congress and find out how to cut deals with them.' So their real specialty is deal-making, deal cutting. They don't know that much about the detail of policy. So you are right that basically part of the problem is that the politicians themselves don't know that much, but they need to know enough to be able to pick someone who's good to run some of these things. So running [knowing] someone who is competent to run an independent central bank, it's kind of a hard job but you can outsource that to some staff; and if you're worried about things working pretty well for a long time, then you'll task your staff with picking somebody who seems like a pretty good candidate who won't cause much trouble and who will make the economy look pretty good before the electorate. So this idea that elected officials don't know that much themselves but they do have an incentive to get some things right when they know they're going to be held accountable by the voters.Tobi: But again, wouldn't less democracy, at least, in some cases lead to populist backlash? I mean, we're seeing that with Brexit...Garett: Oh, yes.Tobi: Some part of the American polity is also in that mode. The EU is a very good example where some British voters say 'oh, we are not going to be subjected to Brussels' rule'. There's a case of Africa, also, where people respond quite negatively to what they perceive as external technocratic interventions. So wouldn't less democracy run a risk of populism in the long-term?Garett: Actually, that's a great point and it's the one that I literally never discussed in the book - it's the idea of a populist backlash. Because it's one of these things that is important and too hard to quantify. The risk of a populist backlash to 10% Less Democracy is a little bit like the risk of a doctor being reluctant to give someone tough advice about diet and exercise because the person just might not come to the doctor anymore. So this is an important question - when should informed people, when should people who are relative experts just not push that hard for the best solution because they are afraid the patient won't take the medicine? In a way that's part of the reason I stick to 10% Less Democracy. I just want people to think about a little bit longer term, a little bit more independent Central Bank because I think these things are less likely to provoke that kind of backlash. But, you're right. But know this, to the extent you're right, this should tell us something about the cost of democracy - if one of the costs of democracy is that voters don't want things that are actually good for the voters, this should be part of our understanding [of] what democracy really is. If the problem is that the voters don't want to take advice that's just some person's opinion, 'ok, well, who cares?' Voters shouldn't have to listen to some person's random opinion. But if voters don't want to take [a] medicine that's actually good for the voters themselves, that should be part of our understanding of one of the weaknesses of democracy and something we should try to find a solution to. Maybe it's the solutions I present in my book, maybe it should be something else, but understanding the weaknesses of modern democracy is important to improving it.Tobi: A good illustration of that point is trade policy. I was just reading Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis's book where they basically say that trade wars are class wars.Garett: Uh-huh.Tobi: It's a reaction. And also it's a tactic for politicians to whip up voter sentiments and possibly win votes. How can people, again, I'm quite interested especially on the key issues that matters like central banking, like trade policy... things that affect the welfare and long-term prosperity, how can voters be a lot more informed to know that taking the choices out of my hands does not really mean I'm being oppressed?Garett: Yeah. This is really an important question. Part of it is that there is some evidence that just education in schools really changes people's minds. So when my colleague Bryan Caplan - he wrote a great book Myth of the Rational Voter, and he wrote a follow-up article where he looked at whether education or IQ scores were better predictors of pro-market attitudes. And he found that particularly on free trade, there was evidence that education itself, years of education was a better predictor of pro-trade attitudes than IQ. This is a signal and it's a reminder of something that made a lot of us believe which is that one of the things you learn in school is that people in other countries are good and, sometimes, they are great people and you should care about them. Also, you might learn some complicated ideas like the benefits of free trade. So education that is focused on teaching true and important facts about public policy, I think, can be a big part of this. But there is another element, another solution is just that we should think like a marginalist and go up the marginal cost curve. Push for a little less populism on topics where the voters aren't going to resist as much. Voters around the world have been pretty cool comparatively speaking with independent central banks - letting neutral banks lend out money and respond to financial crisis, (and) I think people can kind of understand why that's better than having one political party trying to lend to its buddies all the time. So, yeah, thinking in marginalist terms is important but also good public education really can improve policy if we teach true important economic ideas to people.Tobi: Let's let's go of the cuff a bit. Why did East Asia converge faster than the rest of the developing world?Garett: This is a great question. I mean part of it you could say that they actually had pretty high levels of productivity before say about 1800. This is part of what the deep roots literature shows, of Putterman and Weil and Bill Easterly at NYU - that, like, before 1500, before the great age of exploration, East Asia was pretty close to the technological frontier for the planet as a whole and so what's happened in the last 50 years in a way is a return to trend. That's not an answer. That's just more of a reminder that sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same. But when I look for the proximate cause, something more like a proximate cause, then I turned back to my first book, Hive Mind, which is that as far back as we have data on test scores, East Asia with particular countries we had good tests on in the ’60s and early 70s - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and soon after that Singapore - these countries were doing pretty well on standardised tests no matter how we measure it. And I think that good cognitive skills are [a] really important ingredient of being able to jump to the technological frontier, and I think that good cognitive skills are an important part of running a good competent government. Those aren't the whole story, fortunately, China's decision to turn away from communism was one of the best decisions in all of human history; that mattered a lot for well over a billion people. But the fact that as far as we can tell, test scores, human capital as currently measured was pretty high in East Asia in the sixties and early seventies, that gave them a good solid launching pad for modern prosperity.Tobi: You've hinted I think on your Twitter feed, I'm not sure anymore, that economists know the causes of long-run prosperity. What's your explanation for that?Garett: We're really good at the proximate causes, the very nearest causes. These are simple things that come from the Solow growth model. Robert Solow, [the] Nobel Laureate, just helped us think about where do GDP come from and having a lot of machines per worker, having a way for people to use them productively is really crucial. Machines aren't your enemy, they are your friend. A lot of technology isn't your enemy, it's your friend. But when we try to look one step behind that, say, why do some nations wind up with a lot more productivity and lot more capital per worker than others, then there's more debate but a lot of people would jump just straight to something like institutions. Some places have great institutions, good competent governance, neutral rule of law, and that means the capital is willing to flow from around the world to good places. I would also add on human capital however measured - whether it's years of education or test scores are both very quite robust predictors. So economists know what works and the simplest version is one I said years ago which is, have pretty high test scores and don't be communist, and you're probably going to be rich. So if a country can find a way to raise its test scores through better run schools, through better public health, and it can avoid the massive mistake of totalitarian communism, then it's got a pretty good future ahead of it.Tobi: In your view why did you choose test scores, I mean, what's the best case for cognitive ability in human capital and long-run prosperity ahead of all these other proximate causes you mentioned like institutions or geography or industrial policy and all these other factors?Garett: The simplest version is just that it's what shows up in the data when I and others have run very serious horse races. So Eric Hanushek, professor at Stanford, leading education researcher, he's found that test scores whether you call them IQ or math and science scores are very astonishingly robust predictors of national prosperity and they really beat out years of education. There's a lot of emphasis on trying to raise measured use of education but the problem is that we know that there is schooling and then there's schooling. So if you just get a diploma but nobody ever taught you anything, the schooling didn't really make you more productive. Another reason though is because of the well-known finding from psychology research which is that skills predict kills. People who are above average in math tend to be above average in verbal stuff. People who are above average at vocabulary test tend to be better at solving three-dimensional puzzles, and so for reasons that are still poorly understood there is what I call a DaVinci effect and what others call a g-factor across mental skills. So running a modern economy at a high-level involves kind of a little bit of everything. It's a little bit of a smorgasbord, it's a little bit of a casserole. It's probably unlikely to be the case that there is going to be this one simple thing that solves all the problems. What you really want is something that is equivalent of a Swiss army knife, something that's a mediocre tool for everything rather than one tool for just one thing. And cognitive skills whether you called them IQ or g or whatever seem to be this version of sort of Swiss army knife where there's a little bit of everything. So people who do better on standardised tests tend to be a little bit more patient. Groups of folks who do better on standardised tests tend to be more cooperative, they're more likely to see the invincible hand and support market-friendly policies, they are more likely to be tolerant of others who are unlike them and these are all great things for a nation. So like I said, running a modern economy near the frontier of productivity involves a lot of little things - low corruption, competent governance, foresight, voters who understand the benefits of trade; the one thing that I can get us a lot of all those little things is higher cognitive skills.Tobi: You wrote a paper a few years ago which I like very much...Garett: Thank you.Tobi: O-ring sectors and Foolproof sectors. And if I understand your model correctly (and you're welcome to set me straight here)... so thinking about this paper and this model, if I am a high-skilled worker in Nigeria, for example, overall you're saying the returns to skill for my education and my skill level is marginal compared to a low-skilled worker. But if I move to the United States of America where obviously there are a lot more high-skilled workers than in Nigeria, the returns to my skill will still be marginal but then there's this huge gains at the national level between both countries that are pretty large, can you explain how that works?Garett: Yeah, so I'm building here on the work of Michael Kremer who just won the Nobel prize last year. He wrote a great paper about the O-ring theory of economic development. He said that a lot of economic tasks in modern economies, especially the richest economies, are kind of like building a space shuttle where if you make one mistake, even in a very complex process of launching a space shuttle, the space shuttle tend to blow up killing everyone on board. This is actually why the space shuttle challenger was destroyed because of the failure of an O-ring (basically a big piece of big rubber band) that was an important part of keeping the rocket safe. So one small failure can destroy the value of an entire product, of course, that's true with a lot of things that we value like smartphones, automobile transmissions, one broken link can destroy the whole thing. Thing is that economists without even realising it, we use another model, routinely, that's not O-ring often without thinking about it - we kind of assumed that workers of different skill levels can get to be mushed together and it's nice to have skilled workers, but maybe you can throw maybe two high-skilled workers and three low-skilled workers, maybe they are perfect substitutes for each other. You know, just throw more bodies at it and eventually the job will get done, there are certainly jobs like that. So part of what I did and really my contribution in this paper, the O-ring sector and the Foolproof sector, was to say 'what if some parts of the economy work like Michael Kremer's world where things like building a space shuttle or smartphone? Not if other things are like the way economists normally think about the world, the Foolproof sector - where if you throw enough people at it eventually the job will get done.' And I said 'what if workers have to decide which of these two sectors they are going to work in?' So let me think about you as an example... high-skilled worker, and you're trying to decide what sector you're going to work in. Well, one of the great ideas in economics is that you're going to go to where the pay is highest, ignoring all the other complications for your life, and so really the net message is that there's always going to be some combination of workers balancing between the two sectors. So if low-skilled workers are superabundant and high-skilled workers are scarce, just about all of us are going to be taking on these foolproof tasks where perfection, exact precision is not crucial. And if high-skilled workers are really abundant, most of us will be working on O-ring type tasks but there will always be some of us, sort of, in-between. This helps explain why the capital goods, hi-tech goods are made in just a few places in the world and in particular, they're usually made in places where the workers are really really expensive. You would think that firms will try to find the cheapest workers possible for any task but instead hi-tech manufacturing, especially cutting-edge hi-tech manufacturing, tends to happen in countries that are pretty high wage. The only thing that can explain this, if people are rational, is that it must be critical, it must be crucial to have high-skilled workers working on those tasks. So one of the lessons of this is that lower-skilled workers can find something really useful to do in a high wage country because if they come to a high wage country, they are competing against a lot of other high-skill workers, so all they have to do is be an okay substitute for that high-skilled worker in some tasks, maybe it's mowing lawns, maybe it's doing routine legal work and all of a sudden those workers can earn a lot more than they would in their home country. So the O-ring-Foolproof paper is in a way an important message for the value of low-skilled workers in high wage countries, but it also helps explain why cutting edge, frontier technology innovation only happens in the highest skilled countries where workers are super expensive.Tobi: The national returns to skill, how does it work with these two sectors?Garett: Well, there is an element of, sometimes, the real world is more complicated than the model, and that's, of course, true here. I have to say that I suspect there is a critical mass element to high-skilled workers. For instance, if I can bring a million of Japan's best engineers to a lower-skilled country, a million of them could run a lot of fantastic factories, be great workers and end up giving a lot of great employment opportunities to lower-skilled folks, so there is this element of...outside the model of... a critical mass element. But the O-ring-Foolproof story is a reminder that high-skilled workers who are in relatively low-skilled countries are often going to be, like, unable to make use of their full potential. Being able to have an O-ring sector of your own to go work in is really where the magic happens of economic prosperity. The greatest things that are happening and the way that economic frontiers are being built is in these O-ring sectors, and, to me, it's a reminder that this is a case for the brain drain. A case that the brain drain actually helps the world as a whole. Brain drain issues are complicated and there are lots of forces pushing both ways but I want to emphasise that there is this positive element to the brain drain which is getting high-skilled workers into countries that can make great use of high-skilled workers really helps the whole world. Has Michael Clemens has pointed out, one benefit of that is that migrants who go from low-skilled to high-skilled countries send back a lot of remittances and those remittances are super valuable. I'd like to emphasise another point, which is getting those high-skilled workers from low average-skilled countries to higher average-skilled countries means that they can contribute to the growth of ideas which makes the global pie bigger.Tobi: You sort of preempted where I was going with that. There was also this essay by Michael Clemens and I think Justin Sandefur about this brain drain issue where they sort of asserted that another element to the brain drain issue that the incentive to migrate and earn more in high wage countries leads to more production of high-skilled workers even in low-wage countries. So Nigeria exports a lot of doctors to the UK, it means a lot more students would want to be doctors so that they can migrate to the UK or wherever where they can earn a lot more than they would in their home countries. Now, here is my question: isn't there a sort of negative effect to this in that their home countries get stuck in the poverty trap... a lot of these high-growth sectors never gets built and some of these countries just depend on remittances which can be pretty tricky?Garett: Yeah. This is a hard problem. Another problem with the brain drain is that it means that the government which really needs a lot of high-skilled workers to basically run competent bureaucracies and manage difficult technical questions, a lot of those folks are gone. They've gone to move to other countries where they can earn a lot more. So I don't want to pretend that the brain drain issues are simple to resolve. But I think that the point you're making, I tend to think of it as less of a problem because people are very reluctant to move. There's a lot of evidence that people are reluctant to move from their home country and they need a really big wage premium. So if things were even sort of mediocre, if there were some moderately hi-tech positions in the home country, you would have very high rates of retention. I think that's pretty clear from the evidence from the fact that people are very reluctant to move. If they can find any excuse to stay, they stay. That's speaking a little informally but I think the data backs that up. Also though, there is this element of where the threat of exit does make home countries behave a little better. The fact that some people might leave does make a home country government say: well, we want to make ourselves more inviting. If we think about what's happened in China (to give an extreme example) over the last few decades, there's been a lot of brain drain from China as Chinese graduates, high-skilled workers often, have moved to many different countries across Asia and across Europe and North America, and one of the reasons that the Chinese government wants to be somewhat open, somewhat...wants to be unlike its totalitarian past and more like [its] authoritarian present is because they want to feel like they can come back. So the threat of exit does discipline national governments in an important way that we shouldn't forget. Brain drain means it's harder to build these hi-tech sectors that you're pointing out, but a brain drain also gives those home country governments a better incentive to behave well. I think of this as a sort of Tiebout voting with your feet story which economies should always be open to, that people voting with their feet sends a very powerful message to governments and informal and formal evidence, I think, backs up that. Tobi: Can national IQ be deliberately raised on a scale that matters? I know you talked about nutrition in hive mind. Also, I look at things like assortative mating and other things but can it really happen on a scale that moves the needle on national prosperity?Garett: This is a great question. I feel like one reason I wrote Hive Mind was to get more people thinking about the very question you asked. Like, my comparative advantage is what does IQ cause rather than what causes IQ? But I believe the Flynn Effect is real. I believe [it is], at least, substantially real. The Flynn Effect is as you know, but your listeners may not, is the longtime rise intelligence scores that's been documented around the world. Public health interventions, people getting healthier and living longer lives, I think that obviously is increasing people's cognitive skills (like, the public health element has just got to be real). I'm less confident but I'm still fairly confident that good education raises cognitive skills big enough to move the needle. And the third one is this broadly cultural story which is really Flynn, I want to attribute this to Flynn himself. My colleague Tyler Cowen and I talked about this in our podcast back in January when I was on Conversations with Tyler - IQs in East Germany rose at least five points, maybe much more, in the decade or so after the end of communism. I think there are these cultural influences on intelligence that are not just teaching to the tests, there is something about a modern open society that I think challenges the mind and makes it work better in a wide variety of settings. So I want to stick with those three right now that public health interventions are first order, good broad-based education is suggestively very important but I can't say conclusively, and then third; there is more evidence I have to say for this big cultural effect - that when your country becomes more like Popperian open society, more [a] mixture of capitalist and loosely democratic, people seem to use their brains in different ways on a regular basis that shows up on the IQ tests. Tobi: Why and I'm sure you must have experienced this maybe in discussing your work or maybe on social media and in other ways. Why is intelligence still a taboo subject so to speak? When I sit with my friends and we talk about development and I bring up Hive Mind...and people bellyache about 'oh, we can't do this or that' and you mildly suggest that 'hey guys, have you considered that our national IQ is pretty low and maybe, maybe that's why we can't get some of these things done.' There's a natural push back that you get. Why is intelligent still such a taboo subject?Garett: I think part of it is because people assume that when you're talking about intelligence you're talking about something that is supposedly a hundred percent or nearly a hundred percent genetic and something that is essential to a person in some very deep way. So I think it's very essentialist as an explanation. I think that's a mistake, I think the evidence does not support that position. And here's a test of it, because instead of using the word "intelligence", use the word "national test scores" and you talk about how education can raise test scores in an important way, then people get much less defensive about it. People are much more open to these very same ideas, the very same channels. So I think a big part of it is that intelligence sounds like something that is intrinsic to a person, unchangeable, nearly immutable and so any ascription of causation to that is personal. So I think discussing it in a Flynnian way, the way that James Flynn has, which is very evidence-based (and) where we think of intelligence as being something like an intermediate outcome... it's not the deep root cause of everything, it's an intermediate outcome that in turn is caused by other stuff. I think that opens people up to thinking about how people's minds create the economy we live in. I'd much rather talk about how our minds create the world around us than talk about what some deep, supposedly essential thing called an IQ score. Of course, the history of the misuse of IQ test is important. The mistakes and evils that have occurred in the name of intelligence research are important. But there are many other things that have been used in evil ways in the past and we cut them slack, and democracy will be, of course, one of those. But I think something about intelligence makes people think it's intrinsic, it's basically immutable and so you're telling people to despair. And if there's one thing to think about when thinking about human cognitive skills is we shouldn't think about despair, we should think about trying to find ways to improve all of the nations in the world not just the lucky few.Tobi: That's interesting. Tell us about what you're working on right now what's your next big project.Garett: I'm on sabbatical and finishing up right now and I'm writing my third book in what I call my Singapore trilogy. And that's going to be a book really about the deep roots literature which I'd mentioned earlier. I'm interested in why the past is prologue. Hive Mind is a book, in a way, about the short-run. About almost proximate causes. 10% Less Democracy is a book about the rich countries. My third book is going to be a book about the whole world and a book about persistence. A book about why the more things change, the more they stay the same. So, again, this is going to draw on the deep roots literature, it's going to draw on the late Alberto Alesina's work on cultural persistence - how migrants carry their attitudes from their home country to the country they move to to a large degree. It's been a lot of fun to write this book because it's so data-driven and it's based on a lot of research that is very influential within economics and not influential at all outside economics and my job is to change that.Tobi: You've been an advocate so speak of high-skilled migration.Garett: Uh-huh.Tobi: How does your argument square with people like Bryan Caplan and who call for open borders, I mean, just let them come?Garett: So Caplan's comic book where I make an appearance on open borders, that's a great fun read I think people should look at that and give his ideas careful attention. I like to remind people that institutions do not just create themselves ex nihilo. That they are actually created by people and I just really want people to think about that a lot. High-skilled immigration means bringing in more informed voters and low-skilled immigration means, 'well, we really need to put a lot of effort into educating those folks' and hope that they support great institutions that will keep the country rich for a very long time. Fortunately, there is a lot of evidence that even the most optimistic supporters of open borders tend to emphasise that high-skilled immigrants have a lot of positive externalities, it's easy to make that case, and less skilled immigrants have... they are more like a wash, there is probably a plus in the short to medium run but closer to a wash than with high-skilled immigration. So I want people to think hard about where good institutions come from and if people coming to your country are going to support better institutions, that should be great news. And if people [who] come to your country are likely to tear it down, you have a little bit more concern. Caplan addresses this in his book in a number of ways with his keyhole solutions. But I think the next 20 to 30 years of both academic research and historical experience will let us know which way low-skilled immigration is going to shape the government of rich countries. Tobi: Charter Cities. Are you optimistic, are you a fan? How best to think about it from a skill and immigration perspective?Garett: Yes, so, Charter Cities which is an idea that's often associated with the Nobel Laureate Paul Romer. The idea that countries should create small little areas within there that are governed by another country's rules. A country that's well-governed, frontier. So say a poor country could say 'hey, we're going to let Singapore run a small part of our country or let Singaporean legislation or Singaporean case law hold sway in this part of our country. I tend to think that the biggest barrier to charter cities as the revenge of democracy. It's very hard to avoid what voters want. I would like to believe that countries with great institutions could franchise their institutions to other poor countries, but the problem is that institutions are created by people and we need to figure out why the institutions are weak in the first country (the country that's starting the charter city). There's a pretty good chance you're going to get a revenge of democracy there and a reversion to the old ways. Some of my GMU colleagues and I have joked that Singapore should franchise it's government to a lot of countries the way McDonald's franchises it's operating model. It would be great if we could do this but it's hard to avoid the norms of democracy especially when, as I note in 10% Less Democracy, some degree of democracy is really important to have. So Charter Cities being in tension with democracy, that's the real problem we have in making Charter Cities durable. I think the solution is to have moderate Charter Cities. Countries where, say, Singaporean law or Japanese law or South Korean law is the default but the local voters can overrule it with a two-thirds vote. Something like that might be much more durable than a full charter city solution. Starting with the default of some rich country's rules but let the local voters overturn it piece by piece and build that change into the original set of rules so that people don't feel like this is out of their control. Tobi: I'm going to ask you a very specific question. So, say, I win the election in Nigeria and I ask you 'hey, Garett, my country is going to be 300 million people in 2050, what are the policies that we can embark upon right now that can get us to a middle-income country over that time period', what would be your advice?Garett: I think my biggest piece of advice would be: find a way to become a credible, attractive place for massive amounts of high-skill immigration. How do I get five million people from China, a million and [a] half people from South Korea, two million people from America to move to Nigeria? Some of those folks will, perhaps, be people of Nigerian descent, people whose ancestors are Nigerian and who want to come back. Some of those folks will be folks who just saw that there is going to be some great tax deals, some great tax incentives to move back. I think people are policy and becoming an attractive place for high-skilled immigration like Singapore is a great way to make your country richer.Tobi: Thank you very much. I've been speaking with Economist Garett Jones and it's wonderful to have you Garett.Garett: It's been great talking with you, Tobi. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.ideasuntrapped.com/subscribe

We're celebrating the return of competitive sport to the playing pitches and sporting arenas of Leitrim this weekend with the much anticpated start of the Leitrim GAA Club Football Championships. In today's show we're looking at the teams participating in the Connacht Gold Senior Football Championship which throw's in tomorrow afternoon. Today's show is in partnership with Leitrim Local Enterprise Office & LocalMedia.ie On the show we talk about the #AllInForEanna campaign to raise much needed funds for the family of Eanna Caffrey, a 17 month old child diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL). You can support the GoFundMe campaign here: https://gf.me/u/ygrbg9 On today's show we'll be chatting to each club gearing up to compete for this year's Senior Championship with players and managers joining Breifne to let us know how they are preparing for the blistering pace they're facing into over the next five weekends. Eight of the ten teams will start their campaign this weekend with four fixtures taking place tomorrow evening at 7pm. We'll be chatting to reigning champions Glencar/Manorhamilton and man of the match in last year's final Conor Dolan (8:51) about their preparation ahead of their opening Group B game in Drumshanbo. County goalkeeper Diarmuid McKiernan (14:49) gives the home sides point of view. Also in Group B, Leitrim Gaels will field a team in Senior Championship for the first ever time, we spoke to their captain James Flynn (18:24) ahead of their big game. Veteran Emlyn Mulligan joins us as captain of their opponents Melvin Gaels for the clash in Leitrim Village tomorrow evening. In Group A in what is arguably the clash of the round Mohill host Ballinamore Sean O'Heslins in a high octane clash which should set the championship alight from the off. Keith Beirne (30:09) spoke to us earlier in the week ahead of the all ticket affair and we're joined by Adrian Smith (36:05), a selector for Sean O'Heslins ahead of the tasty encounter. Our final interview of the show is Fenagh captain Donal Wrynn (41:41) who host St. Mary's Kiltoghert in their opening game on Saturday.

This week's expert knows all about intelligence.  Professor James Flynn is an internationally recognised expert on intelligence he's also  an emeritus professor at Otago University.

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James Flynn is the managing partner of Epstein Becker & Green, a US law firm with 14 offices, and a member of the International Lawyers Network. In this episode, Lindsay and Jim discuss how the pandemic has broken down barriers between offices, the ways in which he addresses the myriad of challenges facing all of us in the current moment, from the economic crisis to COVID-19 to racial diversity, and how a multinational network is an asset when you're facing adversity.

Jim Flynn (the Flynn Effect) and Asger Folmann discuss subculture and its link to intelligence, reversal of the Flynn Effect, scientific censorship, intelligence selection pressure, and more. Flynn also explains the trends that lead to his most recent book: A Book Too Risky to Publish, which was, ironically, abandoned by the (first) publisher. Charles Murray, Arthur Jensen, Thomas Sowell, and others, are mentioned. *** Flynn’s new book: A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and Universities https://www.bookdepository.com/Book-Too-Risky-Publish-James-R-Flynn/9781680532197 Flynn’s book on Free Will: Fate & Philosophy: A Journey Through Life's Great Questions: https://amzn.to/2XX9t0C *** Crypto & fiat VISA metal card, free $50 and 2% CASHBACK on all purchases here: https://platinum.crypto.com/r/asger Ref code: asger NOTE: You must stake 50 MCO (easily done in the app) to get the free $50 and 2% cashback. *** Asger Folmann on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Asger_Folmann *** Guest requests, topics you want me to explore, and general discussion: JOIN Meta Quest group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2587879611435927/ *** Get in touch here: metaquestcontact@gmail.com *** #JamesFlynn #theFlynnEffect #Intelligence

This is the first part in a two part discussion with world renowned moral philosopher and psychologist James Flynn. Professor Flynn has been at the forefront of the discussion on intelligence, race and IQ, bringing this together with a deep grasp of moral and political philosophy.In this episode Professor Flynn covers his research and study on intelligence and its application to politics, and the current state of universities.Support the show (https://www.freespeechcoalition.nz/donate)

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As we heard in the Global Trade & Supply Chain episode of Untangled a few weeks back, supply chains are complex systems that currently lack transparency. Increasing supply chain transparency is a tricky task and exposing this transparency to consumers is even more difficult. But what if consumers could demand transparency? Today, consumers want to make informed choices about the products they purchase. Particularly in the food and fashion industry, provenance data can help consumers assess the authenticity and sustainability of their shopping. Public distributed ledgers, such as IOTA's Tangle, can help manufacturers open up supply chain data to their customers. Storing the data on distributed ledgers allows any customer to access it either from a dedicated app or with a simple web interface, without sharing any personal data. In the fashion industry, producing the garments can be a deadly task and more and more brands are seeking to showcase their sustainability. The food industry can be equally fatal, also on the consumer's end, for instance when allergen labels are incorrect. EVRYTHNG and Primority are two companies that are both addressing these issues and have both partnered up with IOTA to add an additional layer of digital trust for their customers. James Flynn and Dominique Guinard, both CTO's and co-founders in respectively Primority and EVRYTHNG, are sharing insights from their expert domains and telling more about how they are working with IOTA and the Tangle.

How new is this generational divide? And what good is fear? [20:46] This week, Joey and Aaron talk about "OK Boomers," the B.S. factory, Big Doorbell, a glissando of strings, Juice, and the effect of adrenaline on our brains. They don't talk about TikTok nor how a useful mnemonic for the generations could be Goop Slap But (Joneses) Xtremely Musical Zebra Appetites. references Taylor Lorenz on "OK Boomer" The TED talk with James Flynn on "Why Our IQ Levels are Higher Than Our Grandparents'"

Prof James Flynn is a New Zealand intelligence researcher and an Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago. He is famous for his publications about the continued year-after-year increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is now referred to as the Flynn effect.Recently Jim wrote a book defending free speech, a book that was picked up by Emerald Press who then recanted their offer to publish citing concerns about the "subject matter, the work addresses sensitive topics of race, religion, and gender."We are very much looking forward to chatting with Jim about freedom of speech, politics, and anything else that may come up in our usual free flowing dialogue.See the Quillette article about Jim's situation around his book here: https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/my-book-defending-free-speech-has-been-banned/?fbclid=IwAR1TNFpq1zXQuB09lDUP2ddno2WQ8k0qRZRDP90Rj0A8TmFrh0sdF6L6r2s================Youtubehttps://goo.gl/uLs7j5Spotifyhttps://goo.gl/zYQUhCiTuneshttps://goo.gl/rMFT7FStitcherhttps://goo.gl/GQkfpS

Happy 4th of July！アメリカ独立記念日スペシャル放送、第109回NYこりんごラジオ、7月4日の本日に、オンエアされましたっ！James July 4th Final BGM.mp3本日のゲストは、アメリカ人で、NY公立学校教員のジェームス フリンさんです！ジェームスさんが、日本に興味を持ったキッカケから、日本に留学、そして英語の先生として働いた経験を語ってもらいました！文化の壁、言葉の壁を越えて、教員人生にささげた彼のライフシェアです。インタビューの詳細記事は..

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------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. James Flynn is a world-renowned intelligence researcher, an Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He's the author of several books, including What Is Intelligence: Beyond the Flynn Effect, Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century, and Intelligence and Human Progress: The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes. In this episode, we talk about the scientific definitions of intelligence and IQ; IQ tests and their limitations; the Wechsler tests, and their subtests; fluid and crystallized intelligence; the limitations and prediction power of IQ tests; types of intelligence; the Flynn effect; comparing IQ of different social groups; and the relationship between science and religion and IQ. -- O Dr. James Flynn é um investigador da inteligência mundialmente reconhecido, um Professor Emérito de Estudos Políticos da Universidade de Otago, em Dunedin, Nova Zelândia. É também o autor de diversos livros, incluindo O que é a inteligência? Além do efeito Flynn, Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century, e Intelligence and Human Progress: The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes. Neste episódio, falamos sobre as definições científicas de inteligência e QI; testes de QI e as suas limitações; os testes Wechsler, e os seus sub-testes; inteligência fluida e cristalizada; as limitações e o poder de predição dos testes de QI; tipos de inteligência; o efeito Flynn; comparações do QI entre diferentes grupos sociais; e a relação entre ciência e religião e o QI. -- Follow Dr. Flynn's work: Faculty page: https://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/staff/jamesflynn.html His books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-James-R-Flynn/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJames%20R.%20Flynn -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

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 "When you turn your back on reality you lose the ability to manipulate reality. One would think that is self-evident. I didn't go into this to not try to find the truth." -- James Flynn* Today it is an honor to have Dr. James Flynn on the podcast. Dr. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago and recipient of the University’s Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. In 2007, the International Society for Intelligence Research named him its Distinguished Contributor. His TED talk on cognitive and moral progress has received over 3.5 million visits. His long list of books include Are We Getting Smarter?, What is Intelligence?, Where Have All the Liberals Gone?, Fate and Philosophy, How to Improve Your Mind, and most recently, Does Your Family Make You Smarter?: Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy. In this episode we cover a wide range of topics relating to intelligence and its determinants, including: Flynn’s attempts to clarify intelligence and its causes The g factor, and what gives rise to it The validity of multiple intelligences theory Intergenerational trends (the “Flynn effect”) vs. Within-generation trends The “social multiplier” model of intergenerational trends in intelligence Individual multipliers vs. social multipliers The multiple causes of black-white differences in IQ Charley Murray and the meritocracy thesis Transcending the politics of intelligence research The dangers of suppressing ideas and research The 20% wiggle room of autonomy on IQ tests The difference between internal and external environment The impact of having a “family handicap” on SAT scores What we can learn from astronomy about human intelligence Toward a meta-theory of intelligence Toward a more humane society Links Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents [TED Talk] Reflection about intelligence over 40 years Heritability Estimates Versus Large Environmental Effects”: The IQ Paradox Resolved The g beyond Spearman’s g: Flynn’s paradoxes resolved using four exploratory meta-analyses  IQ Bashing, Breadkdancing, the Flynn Effect, and Genes Men, Women, and IQ: Setting the Record Straight  The Flynn Effect and IQ Disparities Among Races, Ethnicities, and Nations: Are There Common Links? The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized  Twitter Q & A with James Flynn 1. “Would a 100 IQ person today be a genius if transported to the year 1918? If not, why not.” https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1027707019317403650 Flynn: No,  they would just be better adapted in their ability to meet educational demands. 2. “Are you concerned with the growing misuse of genetic causal fallacies in heritability research, and what can be done to make sure that researchers do not assert implications that are not supported by the data? Is this a question of education?” https://twitter.com/NathanH90714587/status/1027690457504002048 Flynn: Whenever I catch them I am disturbed by both bad genetic hypotheses and bad environmental ones. 3. “What has caused the Flynn reversal in Nordic and some other rich countries? Markus Jokela suggested it could be health related.” https://twitter.com/mark_ledwich/status/1027685177231695872 Flynn: See this article in Intelligence by myself and Shayer on IQ decline. 4. “Prof. Flynn has written about the increase in non-verbal reasoning on IQ tests that is attributed to the exposure to analytical/sequential/logical reasoning through technology. What should we do, then, to increase the verbal side of our reasoning, or have we reached the peak?” https://twitter.com/jakub_ferenc/status/1027682377169076224 Flynn: Read good literature and stand out against the trend to read less and less (see Flynn, The Torchlight List  and The New Torchlight List.  5. “Could the Flynn effect be based at least partially on a trade off, meaning that with change in culture promoting development of skills associated with higher IQ scores, this rise is at a cost of eg working memory?” https://twitter.com/Kapusta2365/status/1027689783219380225 Flynn: I don’t think there is a downward trend in working memory – see Does Your Family Make You Smarter? 6. “Do the intelligence gains the Flynn effect reveals show an in increase in the g factor?” https://twitter.com/DabneyPierce/status/1027684042022432768 Flynn: No – see “Reflection about intelligence over 40 years” just posted on the net. 7. “What do you make of American SAT/ACT trends, that is the Asian scores increases and the Native-American scores declines?” https://twitter.com/UnsilencedSci/status/1027682180737130497 Flynn: Sorry I have only looked at black and white. 8. “Does you ever think there will come a time when rational, non-bigoted people can publicly discuss race and gender topics relating to his research?” https://twitter.com/AFIChai/status/1027732647349547009 Flynn: Well I hope so – but there is no trend in that direction. -- * Quote taken from a lecture Flynn gave at the University of Cambridge on July 20, 2012.

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Subscribe to the podcast. Depends on what you mean by backbone? “On average women may approach management in a more democratic, less dictatorial, more collaborative manner than men,” David Ross, a professor at Columbia Business School said. “And on certain kinds of tasks that can have a significant impact on the performance of an entire organization.” The key word here is MAY, so no need to look any further... Women should not read any further than this line. According to IQ expert James Flynn, women are smarter than men. A study at Aston University in England concluded that women are better than men at remembering things two minutes, 15 minutes, and 24 hours after learning them. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario concluded that women are far better than men at handling the stress of job interviews. Multiple studies on multitasking have shown that women are far superior to men when it comes to handling multiple jobs at once. A study at the University of Sussex found women to be better computer programmers than men. A Canadian study concluded that female doctors are much more likely than male doctors to adhere to physicians’ guidelines and to prescribe the right drugs for any given ailment. The International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics published research concluding that female-led companies are more successful than ones led by males. Studies show that women are better drivers than men. A study conducted by Barclays Wealth and Ledbury Research found that female investors experience a higher return on their investment than men do mainly because testosterone impels men to take unnecessary risks. SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW THE SHOW ON ITUNES Co-hosts Taz Thornton and Shawna Peters are women by the way. Malcolm is in way over his head here and will need support from men everywhere. Do not ignore this, the future of 'real men' is in jeopardy now and WE need to set the record straight...that is if you believe all this rubbish. Brace yourself... SPECIAL INCENTIVE FOR OUR FANS, EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR HEALTHYCELL TALK RADIO – CATCH THE NEWEST EPISODE DAILY 5pm EST 7 days a week, Encore at 11pm EST & for our Europe Listeners, 9am GMT Your Smartphone, APPLE APP or ANDROID APP Our DIGITAL MEDIA PLAYER directly in your web browser Talk Radio Networks: iHeart Radio, TuneIn, Aha Radio, RadioGuide.FM + more PODCAST – ON-DEMAND on iTunes, Google, iHeart Radio and more LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST LISTEN ON GOOGLE PLAY LISTEN ON THE PODCAST APP ON-DEMAND AT AMERICA OUT LOUD 24/7 LINK TO LIFE, LIBERTY & PLEASURE SHOW PAGE

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Join Dr. Carlos as discusses are we getting smarter with Dr. James Flynn. IQ gains are persisting into the 21st century, particularly in the developing world: the 'Flynn effect' marches on! This exciting new book by James R. Flynn aims to make sense of the continued rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society.About the AuthorJames R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a recipient of the University's Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. He is renowned for the 'Flynn effect', the documentation of massive IQ gains from one generation to another. Professor Flynn is the author of 12 books including Where Have All the Liberals Gone? (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and What Is Intelligence? (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which caused many to rethink the prevailing theory of intelligence.

Supt. Mark Benigni called me and told me about this...how working in a BYOD environemnt , building new schools and having student sget involved in teacher's PD is changing the face of education in Meriden. Its a win win for everybody and students Michaela Blain, Aidan Messier and Jackie Townnsend will be our guests along with Social Studies teacher James Flynn

James Flynn is a New Zealander who relocated to San Francisco where he runs Extrasensory Devices. He's an engineer who started by developing modems, and then released on his own a set of drum-tempo monitors and a light-meter add-on for the iPhone. He's launched three Kickstarters, all of which funded, and has plenty more in his pipeline.

James Flynn studies intelligence at the University of Otago in New Zealand. And he features prominently in an article called “Can We Keep Getting Smarter?” in the September issue of Scientific American magazine. Back on July 10, Flynn visited the SA offices, where he chatted with a group of editors

ASCOLTA IL PODCAST! [audio https://oggiscienza.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/intervista-rumiati2.mp3] MRPOD - Finalmente, dopo un secolo, le donne hanno battuto gli uomini nei test d'intelligenza. Almeno questo è quanto ha dichiarato alla stampa nei giorni scorsi James Flynn, psicologo neozelandese considerato tra i maggiori esperti di QI. La notizia (non ancora pubblicata su una rivista scientifica) ha fatto rapidamente il giro del mondo. Si è parlato di "sorpasso storico", dato che da quando sono stati inventati i test d'intelligenza, nei primi del Novecento, le donne hanno sempre ottenuto punteggi più bassi, anche di cinque punti, rispetto alla controparte maschile, al punto da persuadere qualcuno dell'innata inferiorità dell'universo femminile. Ovviamente, la differenza tra i sessi non è, e non è mai stata, genetica, ma semmai socioculturale. "Negli ultimi cento anni – ha detto Flynn – i test hanno dimostrato un incremento del quoziente intellettivo in entrambi i sessi, ma le donne hanno progredito più rapidamente perché in passato erano svantaggiate". Oggi, che galoppano il doppio per destreggiarsi tra lavoro e famiglia, sono diventate gioco-forza multitasking e hanno sviluppato capacità cognitive superiori. Ma è possibile davvero fare queste distinzioni tra il cervello maschile e il cervello femminile? Ne parliamo con Raffaella Rumiati, professoressa di neuroscienze cognitive alla Sissa di Trieste. L'articolo MrPod – L’intelligenza è femmina. O no? proviene da OggiScienza.

James Flynn, who noticed that IQ scores have risen by three points every decade (a trend called the Flynn Effect), makes a case for why any racial differences in IQ are not immutable and caused by genetics. For more see his latest book, "What is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect."