Evaluando a los Millennials. Apreciaciones sobre la inteligencia a partir del Test de Raven.

The aim of the current paper is to present a discussion regarding intelligence in new generations and to compare their performance with that of previous ones on the basis of the results obtained in Raven's Progressive Matrices norms updating for 19-to-30 year-old people in La Plata, Argentina. This is a compelling discussion after having found an arrest on the Flynn effect. The sample consisted of 947 male-female participants. Based on age, they were split in four intervals: ages 19-20, 21-22, 23-24 and 25-30 years old. The results obtained in this study were compared with the norms from 1964 and 2000 regarding the same age and city as well. A plateau effect and a slight decrease on the average scores in the test were found between the 2000 norms and the current study. In accordance with recent research from other countries, these results show a deceleration and even an arrest of the direct scores needed to reach an average score in each age-group. However, unlike such research we propose that the found effect is not a top but a plateau one. The contributions to the debate on its causes are based on generational dimension-linked perspectives, and on the so-called generation Y or the ' 'Millennials' characteristics in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]