Barbara Stoddard Burks | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 22, 1902 |
| Died | May 25, 1943 (aged 40) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Heritability of IQ |
| Spouse |
Herman Ramsperger
(m. 1927–1932) |
| Awards | General Education Board Fellowship (1935) Guggenheim Fellowship (1943) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychometrics Behavior genetics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Institute of Child Welfare Carnegie Institution for Science Columbia University |
| Thesis | The relative influence of nature and nurture upon mental development: a comparative study of foster parent-foster child resemblance and true parent-true child resemblance (1928) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lewis Terman |
| Notable students | Claude Shannon |
Barbara Stoddard Burks (December 22, 1902—May 25, 1943) was an American psychologist known for her research on the nature-nurture debate as it pertained to intelligence and other human traits.[1] She has been credited with "...pioneer[ing] the statistical techniques which continue to ground the trenchant nature/nurture debates about intelligence in American psychology."[2]
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