Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubts about the work of Cyril Burt, an English researcher who concluded that intelligence is 80 per cent inheritable, were first expressed by Leon Kamin, a professor at Princeton University, in 1972. Kamin has said Burt's reported data is far too consistent to be true...
Supporters of Kamin's theories and those who believe I.Q. scores to be largely determined by environment, not heredity, point to Burt's works as the only substantial scientific evidence contradicting their "environmental influence" theories, and see its apparent refutation as a major blow to its credibility...
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...
...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...
...Kamin said he would not challenge those he termed "academic racists" like Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, because "not much comes out of debates...