Cyril Burt Biography

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who made contributions also to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance and intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist. Some[citation needed] scholars have asserted that Burt did not commit fraud. Some[citation needed] genome studies have supported Burt's proposition of a high heritability for intelligence, but this view remains controversial.