Comments on: SOWELL ON FLYNN http://www.bloggernews.net/110688 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Joe Lane http://www.bloggernews.net/110688#comment-116177 Joe Lane Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:07:37 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/110688#comment-116177 Twin studies: England's Sir Cyril Burt was just as convinced that working-class people had lower IQs, so kept data for thirty years on twins. Unfortunately, much of it was lost to a direct hit from a German bomb early in WWII, so he fabricated much of his findings to prove his hypotheses. His later data included twins who were 'separated' for a matter of months only, or were being looked after for a time by relations nearby or next-door neighbours, so hardly all that 'separate', and so were raised in similar environments. After all, adoptions and fosterings tend to keep kids in a similar class environment to their original one. So hypothesis of inherited IQ is still unproven. Joe South Australia Twin studies: England’s Sir Cyril Burt was just as convinced that working-class people had lower IQs, so kept data for thirty years on twins. Unfortunately, much of it was lost to a direct hit from a German bomb early in WWII, so he fabricated much of his findings to prove his hypotheses. His later data included twins who were ’separated’ for a matter of months only, or were being looked after for a time by relations nearby or next-door neighbours, so hardly all that ’separate’, and so were raised in similar environments. After all, adoptions and fosterings tend to keep kids in a similar class environment to their original one. So hypothesis of inherited IQ is still unproven.

Joe
South Australia

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