It is called the Flynn effect after James Flynn, who discovered it.

它被称做“弗林效应”，以它的发现者詹姆斯·弗林命名。

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Many causes have been proposed for both the intelligence gap and the Flynn effect, including education, income, and even nonagricultural labor.

人们对智力差距和弗林效应提出了许多成因，包括教育、收入，甚至还包括非农业劳动。

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The study’s findings may also help explain the Flynn effect, which can’t be accounted for by evolution (the IQ gains occur over time spans too short for natural selection).

该研究发现还可能对解释不能归因为进化（对于自然选择来说，获得IQ的时间跨度太短）的弗林效应有所帮助。

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And, if we go back even farther, the Flynn effect puts the average I.

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Flynn has been writing about the implications of his findings now known as the Flynn effect for almost twenty-five years.

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Q. of 100, the Flynn effect says that his children will have I.

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