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Is Political Talk Getting Smarter? An Analysis Of Presidential Debates And The Flynn Effect

机译:政治对话变得更聪明了吗?总统辩论与弗林效应分析

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James R. Flynn has shown that I.Q.s of persons living in industrialized societies have increased steadily over the past century, averaging a three-point gain per decade. The cause of the "Flynn effect" is unclear, but in What Is Intelligence? Flynn suggests that the I.Q. gains are attributable to an increasingly conceptually complex social environment. An important cause of this enriched cognitive world is the increasing permeation of scientific categories into everyday thinking. Using a mix of human coding and computer-aided content analysis, we test whether the use of abstract scientific terms, and employing such terms in causal and logical analysis, has increased over time in presidential debates. We find no evidence that the discourse in these debates has become scientifically richer, and find that scientific discourse with respect to economics has actually declined. Possible reasons for this finding and directions for future study are discussed.
机译:詹姆斯·弗林(James R.Flynn)表明,在过去的一个世纪中,生活在工业化社会中的智商稳定增长,每十年平均增长三点。 “弗林效应”的原因尚不清楚,但是在什么是智力中?弗林(Flynn)建议收益归因于概念上日益复杂的社会环境。丰富的认知世界的一个重要原因是科学范畴日益渗透到日常思维中。结合人类编码和计算机辅助内容分析,我们测试了在总统辩论中,随着时间的推移,抽象科学术语的使用以及因果分析和逻辑分析中使用此类术语是否有所增加。我们没有证据表明这些辩论中的话语在科学上变得更加丰富,并且发现关于经济学的科学话语实际上已经下降了。讨论了这一发现的可能原因和未来研究的方向。

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