Psychologists rethink Burt
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New evidence on Sir Cyril Burt: His 1964 Speech to the Association of Educational Psychologists
After reviewing the debate that raged over Cyril Burt’s [Br. J. Psychol. 57 (1966) 137] finding of a correlation of .771 for IQ scores in 53 pairs of monozygotic twins raised apart, this paper provides the transcript of a previously unpublished speech by Burt given on May 2, 1964, at the age of 81, on the occasion of his appointment as Patron to the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/356005a0