Origin of The Term
The Flynn effect is named for James R. Flynn, who did much to document it and promote awareness of its implications. The term itself was coined by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve. J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the "Lynn-Flynn effect", after Richard Lynn, "because it was actually the Lynn (1982) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times (amongst the Japanese)."
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