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Title: Interesting but probably rendered obsolete by the Flynn effect
Review: This is an unfair review since this book was published back in 2002, but the key ideas of this book may have been rendered obsolete by James Flynn's new paradigm on IQ, which he describes in "What is Intelligence" (2007). The Flynn effect basically observes that raw IQ scores have risen dramatically world-wide over the past 50 years- not on all test questions- but on the abstract ones- the ones that suposedly best reflect innate intelligence. IQ does reflect heredity, but it also reflect several other factors so it's essentially an achievement test then. (Recent work on epigenetics- gene switches- also cast further doubts on the conclusions of "Wealth".)If Flynn is proven right, then in the future, your IQ will be like your current salary as opposed to the convention that IQ represent some kind of maximum cap.
