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...Herrnstein said that not all of Burt's facts may be correct, because Burt "was very casual about reporting his findings." But those findings were correct, Herrnstein said...
Recent charges that an English psychologist faked research results on the relationship between genetic inheritance and intelligence have sparked controversy at Harvard concerning the extent to which Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, relied on the allegedly faked studies in his own work...
...Herrnstein said yesterday that Burt's data is not essential to his theories of the correspondance between inheritance and I.Q., but called the charges that Burt deliberately faked his results "outrageous and incompetent...
David R. Layzer '47, professor of Astronomy, said that Herrnstein's work "stressed Burt's study, as the best of the available studies." There is "no doubt that the data were faked" by Burt, Layzer said...
...symptoms of that malaise--caused in large part by the ongoing war in Vietnam--was a feeling, Herrnstein says, that the future was unimportant. Academic studies and future careers were unimportant, he suggests. "It was harder to keep your mind on Ec 10 when you or someone you cared about was struggling to decide whether or not to run away to Canada to escape the draft...