Posted on 10/21/2019 10:14:59 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
... these documents point to what Anthony Pelosi, a psychiatrist with the UK’s National Health Service in Glasgow and Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, calls “one of the worst scientific scandals of all time.”
Eysenck is revered as one of the greatest psychologists in history, his fame built on his work concerning intelligence and personality testing, known as psychometrics.
He long maintained the hereditability of IQ and personality traits and was a supporter of the work of people like Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, the somewhat infamous authors of The Bell Curve, a book that amongst other things makes correlations between race and IQ in the US.
Eysenck also published work validating aspects of astrology to do with the correlation between personality and astrological signs and was seemingly rather partial to parapsychology and the world of psychics.
One researcher who attempted a sympathetic review of the work, in cooperation with the pair, found, says Pelosi, “unequivocal evidence of manipulation of data sheets,” from the Heidelberg cohort, as well as numerous patient questionnaires with identical responses.
As David Marks, the editor of the Journal of Health Psychology put it, “There is absolutely no scientific evidence that any of these statements are true, and Eysenck is proved by his own words to be guilty of some of the most egregious and harmful falsehoods made by any psychologist ever.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
I’m glad I grew up in the time when they actually measured your IQ every year.
Remember. If you can’t show the numbers, it’s opinion.
No since that award is firmly held by fraudulent non science about “climate Change”
It’s pretty interesting what people are doing these days with brain scans and neurofeedback. Very different from “tell me how you feel about your mother,” for sure.
I have several college degrees but gravitated towards aviation. Either it flies or not. No woman has ever flown a square airplane. Math keeps ruling science.
Astrology is really stupid in the modern age. When you see a pattern in the sky, you have to remember that the stars that make that pattern are at drastically different distances from earth, meaning that if you move to the side, the pattern will be completely different. There is no meaning to the star patterns.
What's next?... Men with vaginas?... Oh, wait... Never mind...
And what's more: not just body positivity, but also such traits as intelligence and morality can be specifically redistributed to more politically correct recipients!
One of the key factors in stupidity is denouncing intellegence, when they do see it, as "crazy." Many middling people simply lack the ability to accept that they might have limitations.
Astrology doesn't read the star patterns as if they are tea leaves, with significance due to the visual picture they paint. The theory of astrology is that the magnetic relationship of one planet to another varies in macro-predictable ways throughout the year, and that therefore people born during the various twelve periods of time (the "signs") each year have more similar human characteristics to one another than do those people born in other signs (whose human characteristics are distributed in different proportions, per sign).
Because I am writing about this does not mean I am endorsing it. But the theory of it has to do with the electromagnetic forces of the planets in various positions relative to the earth's orbit.
The article doesn't claim that. Did you read the article?
There’s this quote that explains much of what we see:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded—here and there, now and then—are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.
Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or, as sometimes happens, is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck’.
- Lazarus Long(R. A. Heinlein) -
Psychology is not a science, nor is Psychiatry.
They are professions using guessing games designed to make money from telling others what’s wrong with them.
>>IQ is not as likely to be inherited, particularly when you are talking about people at both ends of the spectrum. The tendency in all cases is a regression towards the mean.
Anecdotally, I knew a couple who both had genius IQs, and their children were slightly above average, at best.<<
Here you have the problem of the “elites”. You can have someone with exceptional intelligence and drive getting into a position of wealth and power, but his offspring, while likely above average, will not be of his level.
Meanwhile, the middle and working classes will produce some exceptional people who will compete for power and position...unless their educational opportunities are crippled.
Heinlein could really turn a phrase! I remember some of his ideas that I read 50 years ago.
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