Cyril Burt

Sir Cyril Burt
Cyril Burt in 1930
Born	Cyril Lodowic Burt (1883-03-03)3 March 1883 Westminster,[1] London, England
Died	10 October 1971(1971-10-10) (aged 88) London, England
Education	King's School, Warwick, Christ's Hospital, Jesus College, Oxford
Known for	Twin study; fraudulent research
Awards	E. L. Thorndike Award (1968)
Scientific career
Institutions	Liverpool University, London County Council (LCC), University College London
Academic advisors	William McDougall, Charles Scott Sherrington
Notable students	Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, Chris Brand
Notes
After he died it became evident that his research on twins separated at birth was based on falsified data.

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.

Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance of intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist, alongside other fabrications.