Few reputations had undergone so dramatic a reversal as that of the late Sir Cyril Burt. When he died in 1971, he was widely acclaimed as a founding father of British psychology and a commanding figure in the world of education. His decline began when it was alleged, some five years later, that he had fraudulently invented much of his most influential data on the inheritance of intelligence. The dispute which followed is one of the great causes célèbres of psychology.
Originally published in 1989, Robert B. Joynson took a penetrating new look at the Burt Affair, examining in detail the grounds on which Burt had been accused. He concluded that the accusations were ill-founded and that Burt must be exonerated.
Dr Joynsons conclusions raised wider issues for psychology itself. How did such accusations come to be made, and how did they come to be so widely accepted? Joynson believed that the episode pointed to inherent weaknesses and limitations in the discipline of psychology itself.
Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Tables.
1. Pioneer
2. Scandal
3.
Discoveries
4. Burts Historical Claims: The Early Papers
5. Burts
Historical Claims: Spearman and Pearson
6. Burts Kinship Studies: The
Invariant Correlations
7. Burts Kinship Studies: The Missing Assistants
8.
Burts Last Papers
9. The Mad Professor
10. Burts Character
11. How it
Happened: The Accusation
12. How it Happened: The Endorsement. Appendix A: A
Disputed Priority. Appendix B: Letter from Thorndike to Spearman, 17 October
1904. Appendix C: Note from Burt (1917: 53). Appendix D: Letter from Sir
Halford Cook, 30 August
1984. Bibliography. Index.
Robert B. Joynson (19222015) studied at the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. From 1948 onwards he taught at the University of Nottingham, with the exception of one year (1967-68) where he taught at Howard University, Washington D.C.
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