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Science 29 September 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4362, pp. 1177 - 1186
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4362.1177
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The Cyril Burt Question: New Findings

D. D. Dorfman 1

1 Professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242

Cyril Burt presented data in his classic paper "Intelligence and social mobility" that were in perfect agreement with a genetic theory of IQ and social class. A detailed analysis of these data reveals, beyond reasonable doubt, that they were fabricated from a theoretical normal curve, from a genetic regression equation, and from figures published more than 30 years before Burt completed his surveys.


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