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Asian Americans: Achievement beyond IQ

by James R. Flynn. 169 pgs.

Contributors:

   James R. Flynn

Publisher:

   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication:

  Hillsdale, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1991

Subjects:

Asian Americans--Intelligence Levels, Chinese Americans--Intelligence Levels, Japanese Americans--Intelligence Levels, Intelligence Levels--United States--Cross-Cultural Studies

	Contents
	Acknowledgments /	xi
1	THE ICE AGES AND THE SINO-JAPANESE BRAIN	1
	Lynn and Evolution	2
	The Viability of Environmentalism	7
	The American Natural Aristocracy	12
	Vernon and Chinese IQ	14
	Organization and Contents	15
2	THE THREE GREAT NATIONAL SURVEYS	16
	Exclusion and Relocation: 1918-1949	17
	Early Studies	17
	Honolulu 1938	18
	Wyoming 1943-1945	20
	Acculturation and Progress: 1950-1971	22
	The Coleman Report	22
	Project Talent	25
	The Ethnic Minorities Research Project	28
	Summary	31
3	ELEVEN STUDIES FROM VARIOUS LOCALES 32
	Kauai Island 1965-1966	32
	Berkeley, The University 1966	34
	Berkeley, The Schools 1968	37
	Los Angeles 1969-1970	40
	Hawaii 1960	43
	The Chinese in Transition: 1972-1975	46
	San Francisco 1972	48
	San Francisco 1975	49
	The New Asians: 1976-1985	52
	A Western City 1977	53
	Psychology Classes 1975-1979	55
	Westown 1985	57
	Summary	60
4	MEASURING THE GAP BETWEEN IQ AND ACHIEVEMENT	61
	Ranking IQ Studies	61
	Chinese and Japanese IQ	62
	Chinese Versus Japanese IQ	65
	IQ and Occupation	66
	IQ and Income	73
	The IQ/Achievement Gap	77
5	THE TWO FACTORS OF OVERACHIEVEMENT	78
	Occupation Revisited	79
	Achievement Tests	81
	The Scholastic Aptitude Test	84
	The National Longitudinal Study	87
	Graduate Tests	88
	University Entrance and Grades	92
	Academic Success and Failure	95
	The Class of 1966	98
	Hypotheses and Evidence	100
6	THE PROBABLE AND THE TENTATIVE	102
	Population Mean IQs	102
	The Classification of Tests	109
	IQ/Occupational Achievement Gaps	110
	The Threshold and Capitalization Factors	110
	The Limits of the Tentative	111
7	BEYOND GENES AND IQ	112
	IQ and Sino-Japanese Genes	112
	IQ and Group Achievement	115
	Explaining Group Achievement	125
	The History of Three Groups	138
8	EPILOGUE SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT	140
	APPENDIX A	142
	APPENDIX B	144
	References	147
	Author Index	156
	Subject Index	160

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