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Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.