Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 at the conclusion he wanted...
...Leon and John E. Jackson, associate professor of Government and the third member of the study team, are examining the impact of governmental regulation on industries...
...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...
...ideas were echoed by California Publicist Sy Leon, 53, who founded a League of Non-Voters and even coauthored a book entitled None of the Above. Said Leon: "I don't vote because I don't want to force a second-class decision on my neighbors." To propagate his views, Leon has been handing out bumper stickers by the scores. One of them reads: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS EVIL...
...window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs." But it wasn't so funny several months ago at New York's Beacon Theater, when Bass Player Leon Wilkeson tossed his smashed guitar into the audience, lacerating the face of a girl in the front...