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Author Fletcher, Ronald

Title Science, Ideology, and the Media : Cyril Burt Scandal
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (448 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; I CASE FOR THE DEFENSE ; 1. Preamble ; Introduction ; Approach ; Jury ; Prosecution ; Cross-Examination ; Fraud? True or False? ; Rehabilitation? ; Relevance? ; Notes
II WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION CROSS-EXAMINATION Introduction ; 2. The BBC: The Intelligence Man ; The Billing ; Misrepresentations ; Indefensible Judgments ; A Disallowing and Rejection of All Qualifications ; Dramatized Incidents and Scenes: Evidence? ; Did You See?
Conclusion Questions Requiring Public Answers ; Notes ; 3. Professor Leon Kamin ; General Charges ; The 1943 Paper "Ability and Income" ; The "Invariant Correlations" ; Errors of Carelessness, in Haste? Or Deliberate Misrepresentations? ; Questions Requiring Public Answers ; Notes
4. Dr. Oliver Gillie and the Press The Most Sensational Charge of Fraud This Century ; Race and Eugenics ; The Mentally Subnormal: The Wood Report ; Guessing the IQs of Adults ; The Missing Ladies-and Parapsychology ; The Invariant Correlations and Working Backwards
"Early Plagiarism to Outright Fraud" General Denunciations ; Questions Requiring Public Answers ; Notes ; 5. The Clarkes and Hull ; Collaboration in the Public Charge of Fraud ; The Famous Articles ; Beyond Hearnshaw: The "Confidence Trickster" ; "A Poor Applied Psychologist."
Notes Questions Requiring Public Answers
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Subject Burt, Cyril, 1883-1971.
SUBJECT Burt, Cyril, 1883-1971 fast
Subject Fraud in science -- England -- Case studies
Mass media -- Influence -- Case studies
Science news -- Case studies
Psychologists -- England
Fraud in science
Mass media -- Influence
Psychologists
Science news
England
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351491839
1351491830