Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. 1. Pioneer 2. Scandal 3. Discoveries 4. Burt’s Historical Claims: The Early Papers 5. Burt’s Historical Claims: Spearman and Pearson 6. Burt’s Kinship Studies: The Invariant Correlations 7. Burt’s Kinship Studies: The Missing Assistants 8. Burt’s Last Papers 9. The Mad Professor 10. Burt’s 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.
Biography
Robert B. Joynson (1922–2015) 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.
