Richard Lynn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Richard Lynn

British psychologist

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1930

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Profession: psychologist, university teacher, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Richard Lynn

  • Richard Lynn (born 20 February 1930) is a controversial English psychologist and author.
  • He is a former professor emeritus of psychology at Ulster University, having had the title withdrawn by the university in 2018, and assistant editor of the journal Mankind Quarterly, which has been described as a "white supremacist journal".
  • Lynn studies intelligence and is known for his belief in racial differences in intelligence.
  • Lynn was educated at King's College, Cambridge, in England.
  • He has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. Many scientists have criticised Lynn's work on racial and national differences in intelligence for lacking scientific rigour, misrepresenting data, and for promoting a racialist political agenda.
  • A number of scholars and intellectuals have said that Lynn is associated with a network of academics and organisations that promote scientific racism.
  • In the late 1970s, Lynn wrote that he found that East Asians have a higher average intelligence quotient (IQ) than Europeans and Europeans have a higher average IQ than sub-Saharan Africans.
  • In 1990, he proposed that the Flynn effect – the gradual increase in IQ scores observed around the world since the 1930s – could possibly be explained by improved nutrition.
  • In two books co-written with Tatu Vanhanen, Lynn and Vanhanen argued that differences in developmental indexes among various nations are partially caused by the average IQ of their citizens.
  • Earl Hunt and Werner Wittmann (2008) questioned the validity of their research methods and the highly inconsistent quality of the available data points that Lynn and Vanhanen used in their analysis.
  • Lynn has also argued that the high fertility rate among individuals of low IQ constitutes a major threat to Western civilisation, as he believes people with low IQ scores will eventually outnumber high-IQ individuals.
  • He has argued in favour of political measures to prevent this, including anti-immigration and eugenics policies, provoking heavy criticism internationally.
  • Lynn's work was among the main sources cited in the book The Bell Curve, and he was one of 52 scientists who signed an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which endorsed a number of the views presented in the book. Lynn sits on the editorial boards of the journals Personality and Individual Differences and Mankind Quarterly.
  • Critics have called Mankind Quarterly a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment" and a "white supremacist journal".
  • He is also on the board of the Pioneer Fund, which funds Mankind Quarterly and has also been described as racist in nature.
  • Two of his recent books are on dysgenics and eugenics.

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