IQ has gone up a little over 15 points since 1950. Flynn attributes the effect to an accelerating capacity for people to view the world through scientific spectacles. Each generation is producing not only better abstract reasoners but better moral reasoners as well.
In this special episode of the podcast, Michael Shermer talks about:
why race still matters
why race shouldn’t matter
racism
BLM (Black Lives Matter), CRT (Critical Race Theory), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
Anti-bias training
the Implicit Association Test and if it measures unconscious racism
race and IQ and why such group differences are environmental and not genetic
how we can achieve a post-race world.
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