ABSTRACT
This chapter considers separately the charges of fraud formulated by Oliver Gillie and Leslie Hearnshaw. Three of these may be called minor charges simply in the sense that the evidence presented in people cross-examination has dealt with them satisfactorily—in a definitive way—and they therefore call for no further demonstration or argument. The chapter shows that the intelligence quotients (IQ) of adults related to occupational gradings were drawn from other existing sources, and that very considerable care was taken by both Sir Cyril Burt and his several colleagues in their estimation of the IQs of parents. Any full examination of Burt's tables in the articles from 1955 onwards make the very idea of inventing data by working backwards from all the correlations there presented simply preposterous. It is not true that Burt deliberately misrepresented "the early history of factor analysis" in order to belittle the part played by Spearman and, in so doing, to claim originality for himself.
