Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn
File:Prof-Richard-Lynn-7635-2.jpg Renowned race realist Prof. Dr. Lynn in 2008; His groundbreaking research on national, racial, and sex differences in IQ left a lasting impact on academia.
Born	20 February 1930(1930-02-20) Hampstead, England
Died	17 July 2023 (aged 93)
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of Exeter Economic and Social Research Institute Ulster University
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts, PhD)
Known for	Research concerning race and intelligence

Richard Lynn (20 February 1930 – 17 July 2023) was a Professor Emeritus of psychology. Lynn's research has been into highly controversial research topics such as race and intelligence, countries and intelligence, sex and intelligence, and dysgenics. Lynn was under constant attack by the liberal and woke left.

Background

He was educated at the University of Cambridge and had worked as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, as a professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and as a professor of psychology the University of Ulster.

Lynn wrote several books as well as numerous academic papers several of which have been published in the prestigious journal Nature. He sat on the editorial boards of the journals Intelligence, Personality and Individual differences, and Mankind Quarterly. He also sat on the board of the Pioneer Fund.

The (Lynn-)Flynn effect

In 1982, Lynn published a paper in Nature showing that the average IQ of Japan had increased substantially over several decades. This rise was later demonstrated in several other countries by Jim Flynn and named the Flynn effect. It has been argued that the effect should be called the "Lynn-Flynn effect" since it was first discovered by Lynn.

Race and intelligence

Lynn's studies on racial IQ differences were cited in the 1994 renowned book The Bell Curve and were then part of the controversy surrounding that book, widely attacked by the Liberal-Left. He was one of 52 people who that year signed the statement Mainstream Science on Intelligence defending many of the results in The Bell Curve.

His article, "Skin color and intelligence in African Americans" (2002) states that lightness of skin color in African-Americans is positively correlated with IQ, which he argues derives from the higher proportion of Caucasian admixture.

Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis (2006) also reviewed earlier IQ testing and calculated average IQs for different races. It argued for evolutionary explanations for the different average IQs. The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide (2008), named after The Bell Curve, argued that the differences in racial IQ explain many social differences and racial hierarchies worldwide.

Sex differences in intelligence

Lynn and Paul Irwing found in two meta-analyses (2004, 2005) that in the general population men have a higher IQs than women by 5 IQ points. In university students the difference is 4.6 IQ points.

Reaction time, brain size, and IQ

Lynn has published several papers showing that IQ is related to brain size and reaction time.

Dysgenics and eugenics

In Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations (1996, second revised edition 2011) and Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001) Lynn reviewed these areas and argued that the condemnation of eugenics in the second half of the 20th century went too far. See also Eugenics.

Immigration

Lynn had spoken out against current mass immigration to Western countries citing issues such as race and intelligence and race and crime. In October 2018 he addressed the Traditional Britain Group's annual conference on "The decline of IQs and intelligence in Europe" due to alien immigration from the Third World. He predicted this decline would continue.

See Countries and intelligence.

The Pioneer Fund

Lynn was a grantee of the Pioneer Fund, upon which board he sat. He also wrote the book The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund.

Quotes

• "Hitler did not regard the jews as genetically inferior. No one could have reached such a conclusion in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s because it was a matter of common knowledge and observation that the jews were exceptionally talented. jews were prominent in business, the professions, and intellectual life. Although they constituted only approximately 1 percent of the population, jews won 10 out of 32 Nobel Prizes awarded [after nominations] to German citizens between 1905 and 1931 and were thus over-represented among this highly elite group by a factor of approximately 30 (Gordon, 1984). Anyone who asserted that the jews were genetically inferior and hence eugenically undesirable would have forfeited all credibility, and Hitler certainly did not do so. [...] Hitler believed that the jews and the Aryans were the two most talented races and that they were in competition to secure world supremacy. Thus, he wrote in Mein Kampf that the jews are "the mightiest counterpart to the Aryan" (p. 64). He feared that the outcome of the struggle between these two peoples might easily be "the final victory of this little nation" (p. 300). [...] The correct understanding of Hitler's views on the jews has been summarized by MacDonald (1998): "Hitler believed that races, including the jews, are in a struggle for world domination, and he had a very great respect for the ability of jews to carry on their struggle" (p. 146). The frequent assertion that Hitler exterminated the jews on eugenics grounds is a misunderstanding of his position."

Publications

In addition to the publications mentioned in the text above.

• Dysgenics, Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations, 1996, 2nd revised edition, 2011, published by Ulster Institute for Social Research, U.K., ISBN: 978-0-9568811-0-6
• Race Differences in Intelligence, an Evolutionary Analysis, 1st edition 2006: 2nd edition 2015 by Washington Summit Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-59368-052-7, described by Professor Helmuth Nyborg as "the definitive study...by the man who did more than anybody else to collect the extensive data."
• Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality, and Evolutionary Analysis, edited by Professor Edward Dutton, Washington Summit Publishers, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-59368-057-2. Professor Helmuth Nyborg stated: "the relevance of this book cannot be overestimated in a time in which globalization increasingly forces different races to live and work together."
• The Intelligence of Nations (with David Becker), 2019, published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research, U.K., ISBN: 978-0-99300--015-7.
• Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability (with Professor Edward Dutton), 2015.

Further reading

• Constantin von Hoffmeister: Dr. Richard Lynn – A Pioneer in Intelligence Research, 21 July 2023 (Archive)
• Emil O. W. Kirkegaard: Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930–2023), 21 July 2023 (Archive)
• Jared Taylor: Richard Lynn – a Wonderful Man and a Great Scientist, 25 July 2023 (Archive)

External links

• Richard Lynn
• Evolution of race and sex differences in intelligence and personality: Tribute to Richard Lynn at eighty
• Richard Lynn Recounts His Life
  • Richard Lynn Recounts His Life, Part 2 of 3
  • Richard Lynn Recounts His Life, Part 3 of 3

Interviews

• A Conversation with Richard Lynn
• Interview with Richard Lynn
• Another interview with Richard Lynn

Effort to strip Richard Lynn of professor emeritus status

• Richard Lynn, Cultural Marxism, and the War on Objective Science