Sir Cyril Burt | |
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 Cyril Burt in 1930 | |
| Born | Cyril Lodowic Burt 3 March 1883 |
| Died | 10 October 1971 (aged 88) London, England |
| Education | King's School, Warwick Christ's Hospital Jesus College, Oxford |
| Known for | Twin study; fraudulent research |
| Awards | E. L. Thorndike Award (1968) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Liverpool University, London County Council (LCC), University College London |
| Academic advisors | William McDougall, Charles Scott Sherrington |
| Notable students | Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, Chris Brand |
| Notes | |
After he died it became evident that his research on twins separated at birth was based on falsified data. | |
Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.
Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance of intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist, alongside other fabrications.
- ^ Arthur R. Jensen, "Sir Cyril Burt (1883–1971)", Psychometrika 37, Number 2 (1972), 115–117.