Cyril Burt : fraud or framed?
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Cyril Burt : fraud or framed?
Oxford University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
When Cyril Burt died in 1971, he was widely regarded as Britain's most eminent educational psychologist. Within five years of his death, however, he was being publicly denounced as a fraud who had fabricated data purporting to show that human intelligence is inherited. Was he really a fraud? Or was he accused of fraud by critics anxious to dismiss such a politically unacceptable scientific theory? Where does the truth lie? The contributors to this book examine
the evidence carefully and dispassionately and conclude that both the defence and the prosecution cases are seriously flawed.
This is a rigorous reanalysis of the data, which has turned up new instances of potential fraud which were not evident before. "The Bell Curve" (Murray & Hearnshaw), published last year, has re-ignited the controversy over the heritability of intelligence. This book provides the most modern and unbiased analysis available of one of the most notorious scandals in science; this is an important re-examination of an issue of great public and scientific interest.
Table of Contents
- 1. IQ and science: the mysterious Burt affair
- 2. Burt and the early history of factor analysis
- 3. Twins and other kinship correlations
- 4. Intelligence and social mobility
- 5. Declining educational standards
- 6. Burt as hero and anti-hero: a Greek tragedy
- 7. Does it matter? The scientific and political impact of Burt's work
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