Definition of Cyril Burt

1. Noun. English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971).

Exact synonyms: Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
Generic synonyms: Psychologist

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Literary usage of Cyril Burt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to by Gerald Sweeney (2001)
"... influences on his early development that she "had never wearied of talking about" his illustrious grandfather.5 Moreover, as Cyril Burt once explained, ..."

2. Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing by James Burt Miner (1918)
"Cyril Burt, for example, says, as quoted by Pearson: "Except for rough and popular purposes, any measurement of mental capacity in terms of age is ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"BOOK REVIEWS presentation, he follows James and McDougall, except where the work of Spearman, Pearson, Hart, Cyril Burt and Edward Webb seems to give him ..."

4. The Accomplishment Ratio: A Treatment of the Inherited Determinants of by Raymond Hugh Franzen (1922)
"(Cyril Burt: The Distribution and Relation of Educational Abilities, p. 83.) For these reasons it is justifiable to attempt to present evidence of the ..."

5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"... ei Fattori ' presented is taken from one by Cyril Burt in the Eugenics Review, pp. 365-373, London, January, Biologico-sociali. Rivista di Antropologia ..."

6. Experimental Education by Robert Robertson Rusk (1919)
"1 Cf. Vorlesungen, vol. ii. pp. 315-319. 3 Cyril Burt, " Experimental Tests of General Intelligence" (British Journal of Psychology, vol. iii. pp. 94-177). ..."

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