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Re‐reconsidering Burt: Beyond a reasonable doubt
Author(s) -
Tucker William H.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199721)33:2<145::aid-jhbs6>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - false accusation , psychology , reasonable doubt , philosophy , epistemology , sample (material) , psychoanalysis , social psychology , law , political science , physics , thermodynamics
The Burt controversy has taken a number of strange twists and turns, leading many observers to conclude that has been exonerated of the accusation that he fabricated his data on monozygotic twins reared apart. A comparison of his twin sample with that from other well documented studies, however, leaves little doubt that he committed fraud. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.