Word: burtness
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...Burt, who received British knighthood for his work, died...
Recently Kamin and a British newspaper found an unusually high degree of consistency among Burt's data. The biggest question mark, Kamin said, is how Burt arrived at exactly the same correlation coefficient from three different sets of data...
Gould also mentioned doubts concerning the existence of Burt's two research assistants. He said that "as far as anyone can tell," the assistants were completely fictitious, fabricated by Burt to lend credence to his results...
Gould accused Burt of "conscious fraud" in fabrication of his data. He cited studies refuting hereditary influences on intelligence and said that there is "nothing really substantial" left to support Burt's theories...
...Burt Defended...