It would be most reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to:
a. the deteriorating quality of parental involvement in children's education.
b. increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition.
c. the decreasing reliance on a single test score as an index of mental aptitudes.
d. the failure to restandardize existing intelligence tests.
Ans: b. increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition.
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