https://referently.com/tags/cognitive-testing/ Recent content in cognitive testing on Referently.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://referently.com/flynn-effect-reversal-what-the-data-shows-about-falling-cognitive-test-scores/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://referently.com/flynn-effect-reversal-what-the-data-shows-about-falling-cognitive-test-scores/ Average scores on standardized intelligence tests rose steadily across the industrialized world for most of the twentieth century. The pattern is named after James Flynn, the New Zealand political scientist who documented it in the 1980s by noticing that test publishers kept quietly re-norming their instruments upward. Each new cohort was outscoring the standardization sample of the previous one, so the tests had to be recalibrated to keep the average at 100.