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Burt's allies prefer to believe the psychologist was careless but honest. The suggestion of fraud "is so outrageous, I find it hard to stay in my chair," says Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein. "Burt was a towering figure of 20th century psychology. I think it's a crime to cast doubt over a man's career." Professor of Educational Psychology Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley adds: "If Burt was trying to fake the data, a person with his statistical skills would have done a better job. It is a political attack. The real...
Scientists who have received public attention for their statements on heredity include Layzer, Kamin, Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology and Stephan J. Gould, professor of Geology. Agreeing with Burt's conclusions, if not his data, are Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Arthur Jensen, professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Herrnstein said yesterday, however, that although he considers Burt's consistency of data "moderately implausible," he does not believe Burt intentionally falsified data...
...Herrnstein said that the work of the researchers who produced the three studies with conclusions similar to Burt's has not been called into question "probably because they are still alive to defend themselves...
...doubts among skeptics remain strong. Gould believes Burt's data "are unusable." Even Herrnstein admits he would no longer use them in papers of his own, since "the appearance of trust-worthiness is as important as trust-worthiness itself" in academic documentation...