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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Genetics and IQ
Keywords: The Burt Affair
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Date: 28 Aug 89 19:17:08 GMT
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In article <528@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
}In article <519@athen.sinix.UUCP> es@athen.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes:
}>
}>[ Condemnatino of Burt's work. ]

}[ Vindication of Burt's work. Burt seen as victim of social mores. ]

}I'm cross-posting to sci.psychology to find out what academic
}psychologists think :-)

A point usually forgotten by both sides of the Burt argument is that
Burt's honesty, or lack of it, has nothing to do with the question in
hand.  There have long since been mountains of further studies, good and
bad, on the same subject.  Academically, Burt's work is merely one
footnote among many, and hardly definitive.

The consensus of these studies, to the best of my knowledge, remains
inconclusive.  The nature/nurture debate rages on.  Most reasonable,
scientific psychologists will agree that both play a significant part.
Which dominates under what conditions at what time of a person's life
remain questions for further research.

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