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| Quote: | "The strongest indications have come from Scandinavia. In 2004, Jon Martin Sundet of the University of Oslo along with two colleagues from the Psychological Services branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces published a article in the journal Intelligence documenting the evolution of scores on intelligence tests given to Norwegian conscripts between the 1950s and 2002. Although the first two decades of testing produced ever-better results, consistent with the ubiquitous Flynn effect, gains began to slow in the 1970s and '80s, and the increase in scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s. Scores on tests of arithmetic skills in particular began to slide distinctly backward after that time.
Last year, Thomas W. Teasdale of the University of Copenhagen and David R. Owen of Brooklyn College, City University of New York, discovered similar goings-on in nearby Denmark. They, too, looked at tests of intelligence given to military recruits (which for Denmark means just about all 18-year-old men). And they also found that overall scores, which had been rising for decades, reached a plateau. "Across the ‘90s, all of the tests stagnated," says Teasdale, referring to the four separate tests given to these men: one involving logical reasoning, another using verbal analogies, a third on completing number series and a fourth test of spatial ability that used geometric figures." |
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