Cyril Burt

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Noun1.Cyril Burt - English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)
Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
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El primer capitulo, y a manera de introduccion, revisa los casos de Ranjit Chandra y Cyril Burt, que cometieron fraude al inventar los datos de sus investigaciones para fundamentar sus propuestas teoricas.
Errores o fraudes en la investigacion psicobiologica infantil: el libro postumo de Ernesto Pollitt
(18) Cyril Burt, The Inheritance of Mental Ability, 13 Am.
All Relationships Dissipate Except This: The Attitude-Behavior Link on the Roberts Court
Selection was based on an IQ exam, the 11-plus, the brainchild of Sir Cyril Burt. Passing the 11-plus was the visa to the local grammar school.
Was there ever a golden age for the grammar school?
Science, Ideology and the Media: The Cyril Burt Scandal crosses genres to appeal to a range of collections, from science history and media studies to psychology, and appears five years after the death of British scientist Sir Cyril Burt.
Science, Ideology and the Media
en 1940 bojo la direccion de Cyril Burt. Fue un continuador de sus ideas, un ardiente defensor del rigor en la investigacion psicologica, un experto en analisis factorial y un investigador en el campo de las diferencias individuales, a la manera de Cyril Burt.
Buchanan, R.D. (2010). Playing with Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck
They offer no solutions to the various aspects of poor research techniques, but this study offers one: It was an academic outside of Cyril Burt's field of educational psychology who caught the fraud because he was viewing the data with a different set of eyes.
Granberg, Donald O., and John F. Galliher. A Most Human Enterprise: Controversies in the Social Sciences
Sir Cyril Burt achieved unparalleled results in researching the effects of environment and heredity on identical twins.
Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD
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