![]() ![]() His article, "Skin color and intelligence in African Americans" (2002) states that lightness of skin color in African-Americans is positively correlated with IQ, which he argues derives from the higher proportion of Caucasian admixture. In 1994, he was one of 52 people who signed the statement Mainstream Science on Intelligence defending many of the results in The Bell Curve. Lynn's studies on racial IQ differences were cited in the 1994 book The Bell Curve and were criticized as part of the controversy surrounding that book. It has been argued that the effect should be called the "Lynn-Flynn effect" since it was first discovered by Lynn. ![]() This rise was later demonstrated in several other countries by Jim Flynn and named the Flynn effect. In 1982, Lynn published a paper in Nature showing that the average IQ of Japan had increased substantially over several decades. He also sits on the board of the Pioneer Fund. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Intelligence, Personality and Individual differences, and Mankind Quarterly. ![]() Lynn has written several books as well as numerous academic papers several of which have been published in the prestigious journal Nature. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and has worked as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, as a professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and as a professor of psychology the University of Ulster. 9.2 Effort to strip Richard Lynn of professor emeritus status. ![]()
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