Cyril Burt

Discredited English educational psychologist (1883-1971) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 88

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.

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Burt (at the time psychologist to the London County Council) measuring the speed of the thought of a child with a chronoscope

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Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education1968

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