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Sir Cyril Burt in Perspective
Numerical peculiarities in Sir Cyril Burt's reports of kinship correlations are most reasonably attributable to carelessness rather than fraud. Showing statistically significant deviations from randomness in the final digits of correlations, Ns, and IQs, or other nonrandomness suggesting "digital preferences," is unconvincing as purported evidence that Burt's figures were faked. -No analysis is...
متن کاملKinship correlations reported by Sir Cyril Burt.
All the kinship correlations (and their sample sizes) reported over a period o f 30 years by Sir Cyril Burt are presented in tabular form. The kinships include identical twins reared together and apart, fraternal twins, siblings, parent-child, grandparent-grandchiM, cousins, and others, more rare types o f relationships. Burt's statistical methods and the procedures for testing and obtaining "f...
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Review Mosquito Net starts in more than one interesting way. The title suggests a story on bednets, but there is little to be read on these. The cover has an image of a dragon fly; one would have expected a mosquito, or perhaps portraits of the four men the book focuses on: Manson, Ross, Reed, and Gorgas. And it starts with a visit, in 1920, of King George V to the hospitalized William Gorgas a...
متن کاملNew evidence on Sir Cyril Burt: His 1964 Speech to the Association of Educational Psychologists
After reviewing the debate that raged over Cyril Burt’s [Br. J. Psychol. 57 (1966) 137] finding of a correlation of .771 for IQ scores in 53 pairs of monozygotic twins raised apart, this paper provides the transcript of a previously unpublished speech by Burt given on May 2, 1964, at the age of 81, on the occasion of his appointment as Patron to the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP...
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During his twenty-two years at Yale, Hugh Long has provided leadership as chairman of three departments (physiological chemistry, phar-macology and physiology), as dean, and as chairman of the division of biological sciences of the University, but even this unparalleled record of academic versatility and productivity reflects only a small part of his achievement. four years he came to Yale as P...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/169309a0