Are Americans becoming more or less alike? Trends in race, class, and ability differences in intelligence.

American students' test scores have been slowly but steadily declining for the past half century. Some recent explanations for this decline have focused on dysgenic trends resulting from low-IQ parents outbreeding high-IQ parents. In this article, the authors examined the evidence for dysgenic tre...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	American Psychologist Vol. 52; pp. 1226 - 1236
Main Authors:	Williams, Wendy M., Ceci, Stephen J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association November 1997
Subjects:	Intellect Racial differences Social status Academic achievement
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost