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    Is the "Flynn effect" named after actor Errol Flynn?

    Question #116524. Asked by serpa. (Aug 05 10 12:31 PM)


    evil44

    		No, it is named after James Robert Flynn, a college professor and intelligence researcher who studied the effect of increasing IQ scores as people got older.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

    Aug 05 10, 2:47 PM

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