Comment by whilenot-dev

I think James Gleick is missing a lot of context her.

James Flynn[0] also gave a TED talk and mentioned those interviews[1]. Apparently it's based on interviews done by Alexander Luria[2] and he put those in writing in one of his books The Making of Mind: A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology (Chapter 4[3]).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Flynn_(academic)

[1]: https://youtu.be/9vpqilhW9uI?t=354

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Luria

[3]: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1979/mind/ch04....