Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was a very early hope that it would be possible to get started last spring," Howard White, assistant to the president at UMass, said Monday. "But that was not realistic at the time and we abandoned those projections very soon after we received the library and started planning on construction...
...Fenway Howard Johnson also has no vacancies for the night of June 15. "Usually what happens is that rooms open up in April, when we get cancellations," Sandra Brent, reservations manager for the hotel, said yesterday...
...doubts became public knowledge when the London Sunday Times reported that Burt's co-authors of the later twin studies-Margaret Howard and J. Conway-are not listed in London University records and are unknown to 18 of Burt's closest colleagues. The revelation is crucial: the two women were presumably Burt's field investigators on the twin research at a time when the psychologist was becoming feeble and deaf. It thus seems increasingly possible that the women never existed, that their investigations were never carried out and that Burt invented them and their reports...
Since the Sunday Times story, a Manchester professor has recalled meeting a Margaret Howard in the 1930s, but the only other traces of Conway and Howard are their signatures on reviews in the late 1950s published in the British Journal of Statistical Psychology. Those writings, mostly attacking Burt's enemies, stopped around the time Burt stepped down as the journal's editor. Says Princeton Psychologist Leon Kamin, an opponent of Burt in the heredity-intelligence debate: "It was a fraud linked to policy from the word go. The data were cooked in order for him to arrive...
...test sheets on the twin studies were among papers stuffed into half a dozen tea chests and later destroyed. Many of his professional articles do not give primary data, referring readers to unpublished reports. Some of those reports, says Kamin, are at least as hard to find as are Howard and Conway...