Helmuth Nyborg

Helmuth Nyborg
Nyborg at the 1960 Olympics
Born
Helmuth Sørensen Nyborg

(1937-01-05) 5 January 1937 (age 87)
CitizenshipDanish
Known forHeritability of IQ, sex and intelligence
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental psychology
InstitutionsAarhus University
Sports career
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
SportCanoe racing
ClubSkovshoved Kano og Kajak Klub
Medal record
Representing  Denmark
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1960 Rome K-1 4×500 m

Helmuth Sørensen Nyborg (born 5 January 1937) is a Danish psychologist, writer, far-right politician and former Olympic canoeist. He is a former professor of developmental psychology at Aarhus University. His main research topic is the connection between hormones and intelligence. Among other things, he has worked on increasing the intelligence of girls with Turner's syndrome by giving them estrogen. He has also stood as a candidate for the far-right party Stram Kurs.[1] His publications have been described as scientific racism.[2][3][4]

Nyborg is a controversial figure among the Danish public for his research on topics such as the inheritance of intelligence and the relationship between sex and intelligence. In 2004, he wrote an article in Personality and Individual Differences which claimed a five-point average IQ difference in favour of men.[5] This led to strong reactions, for example in an editorial by the Danish newspaper Politiken.[6] In 2011, he argued in an article that migration from third-world countries to Denmark would cause a dysgenic effect on the country's average IQ over time.[7]

Nyborg has argued that white people tend to be more intelligent than black people,[8] that immigration from non-Western countries leads to a decline in the average intelligence of the receiving Western country,[9] and that atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.[10][11][12][13] His papers have been criticized within and outside academia and in 2013, the Danish Committees for Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) ruled that he committed scientific misconduct in his paper The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection.[7] This decision was later overturned by a Danish court, clearing him of the charges.[14]

  1. ^ Helmuth Nyborg kaldte det »dybt ulykkeligt at hans forskning bruges af den yderste højrefløj. Nu stiller han op for Stram Kurs, Dagbladet Information. May 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Berhanu, Girma. (2007). Black intellectual genocide: An essay review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Education Review, 10(6).

    "The Danish developmental psychologist Helmuth Nyborg, a close associate of the authors [Lynn and Vanhanen, 2002], has repeatedly and openly expressed his racist and sexist opinions. A number of Danish tabloids circulated his outrageous statements, e.g., “women are dumber than men,” Denmark has to forbid the reproduction of less , and assortative mating must become the norm. In a tribute to Arthur Jensen (Nyborg, 2003), he stated that intelligence is essentially immutable and primarily genetically based. A book he edited entitled The scientific study of human nature (Nyborg, 1997) is a prime example of the resurrection of Scandinavian scientific racism."
  3. ^ Brown, Andrew (2008). "Science proves Anglicans smartest". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. It turns out that Nyborg is an enthusiast for scientific racism. It's not just believers who are more stupid, in his world: it's black people and women, too.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Minkowitz 2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NyborgH2005SexRelated was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ (in Danish) Leder i Dagbladet Politiken: G for galskab. Politiken.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  7. ^ a b Nyborg, Helmuth (July 2012). "The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection". Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031.
  8. ^ Nyborg, H.; Jensen, A. R. (2000). "Black–white differences on various psychometric tests: Spearman's hypothesis tested on American armed services veterans". Personality and Individual Differences. 28 (3): 593–599. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00122-1.
  9. ^ Nyborg, H. (2012). "The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian selection". Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031.
  10. ^ Lynn, R.; Harvey, J.; Nyborg, H. (2009). "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations". Intelligence. 37: 11–15. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004.
  11. ^ Nyborg, H. (2009). "The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans". Intelligence. 37: 81–93. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.08.003.
  12. ^ Race-læren på psykologi, Aarhus Universitet / FAKLEN.DK – en humanistisk modoffensiv. Faklen.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  13. ^ (in Danish) Næse til omstridt forsker. Politiken.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Denmark court clears controversial psychologist of misconduct charges – Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch". retractionwatch.com. 30 March 2016.