ABSTRACT
Among the "authorities" interviewed in The Intelligence Man, there is no doubt that the only critic to be taken seriously is Professor Leon Kamin. Of all the participants in The Intelligence Man, Kamin was the most deliberately defamatory in his pronouncements and his manner of making them. This chapter looks at question of fraud itself, and will then have to bear in mind what is revealed about the nature of Kamin's testimony. It is concerned with the character, truth, and validity of the testimony itself, and the nature of the evidence on which Kamin himself has rested his case. Cyril Burt's statement was, in fact, of very modest proportions, and frank in its confession of limited range, reliability, and significance. The crux of Kamin's criticism—the one taken to be damning, which has been repeated ad nauseam ever since it was made—was that the correlations Burt reported in successive papers were "too good to be true".
