ABSTRACT
The allegation that the "invariant correlations" were evidence of fraud on Sir Cyril Burt's part must be dismissed. The allegation of impropriety in connection with the "invariant correlations" is therefore seen, like the other allegations, to rest on insufficient grounds. Beyond reasonable doubt, the evidence points to other explanations, and this brings to an end consideration of the major charges of fraud proper. This chapter focuses on the wider charge that Burt frequently wrote under pseudonyms. There is therefore no evidence whatever to substantiate any charge of fradulent fabrication of data in the twin studies. The plain upshot is that there is therefore not the slightest evidence of anything remotely approaching fraud in the entire sequence of articles from 1943 to 1958. Quite literally, no invariant correlations relating to different numbers of identical twins were presented in these tables at all.
