The argument in this text is if new generations are getting smarter and smarter than the previous generation. While James Flynn was in New Zealand, he made a discovery saying that new generations are smarter than the older ones, so teenagers in today's world are having more and more potential to do bigger things in the world and make bigger advances because they have more ability to do things. In today's world, we have advanced technology. That alone is going to help younger people in today's world get a hold of a lot more information and be able to learn a lot faster in a certain something that they are interested in.

"The overall gain is about 3 points every 10 years, which would be 9 points in a generation. That is highly significant." (Gambino. par.5). Certain tests on an IQ test called subtests, test different things in a person's mind. One is called similarities and one is called arithmetic. The similarity test scores have increased drastically over the years, however the scores on the arithmetic test have not increased so much over the the past 30 years. They have increased, but it has been very little. The IQ's have not just been increasing in America. The scores have been increasing all over the world. Scandinavia's scores are increasing massively over the years, just like the United States. Countries like South Korea, Germany, and Britain are consistently staying the same from the past to the previous generation. 

"The ultimate cause is the Industrial Revolution. It affects our society in innumerable ways." (Gambino. par.8). As I have already stated, technology is a huge part in the scores changing. More factors are family size and schooling. Family size is important because the smaller the family the better. The reason is because if you have less children in your family, the kids will pick up their parents vocabulary rather than talking how their brothers and sisters are talking and picking their own little language. The more the kids hear their parents talk, the more they will talk like them. Schooling is pretty obvious on why it is important. It helps you think and figure things out better so that when you get to the IQ test, you will be thinking like they do and will not have as hard of a time while taking the test. 

Citation:

Gambino,Megan. "Smithsonian." December 3, 2012. November 16, 2014.