Additional Professor, Dept. of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029, India
Indian J Psychiatry. 2004 Apr;46(2):166-8.
Every 30 years or so, there is an increase of approximately 10-20 points in the population IQ; this appears to be a universal finding. Known as the Flynn effect, it is regarded as a largely artefactual situation because there is no evidence for a true transgenerational increase in intelligence. The Flynn effect makes problematic, the use of IQ tests to compare individuals across generations and the use of IQ tests, the norms of which were obtained in previous decades. The Flynn effect is important to India because IQ test results have many legal and financial implications. Regrettably, most tests that have been standardized for use in India have norms that are decidedly outdated. Restandardization of important IQ tests is urgently required.
大约每 30 年，人口智商就会增加 10-20 分左右；这似乎是一个普遍的发现。这种现象被称为弗林效应，它被认为是一种人为的情况，因为没有证据表明智力在代际间真正有所提高。弗林效应使得跨代比较个体的智商测试变得复杂，也使得使用几十年前获得的测试常模的智商测试变得复杂。弗林效应对印度很重要，因为智商测试结果有许多法律和财务方面的影响。遗憾的是，为在印度使用而标准化的大多数测试的常模都明显过时了。急需对重要的智商测试进行重新标准化。
