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firemonkey
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11 Oct 2019, 9:05 am

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The work of one of the most famous and influential British psychologists of all time, Hans Eysenck, is under a cloud following an investigation by King’s College London, which has found 26 of his published papers “unsafe”.

King’s says the results and conclusions of the papers “were not considered scientifically rigorous” by its committee of inquiry. Prof Sir Robert Lechler, the provost at King’s, has contacted the editors of the 11 journals where the papers appeared, recommending they should be retracted.


https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... otes_email

I remember my parents having his 'Test your IQ' type books in the 1970s.



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11 Oct 2019, 3:01 pm

firemonkey wrote:
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I remember my parents having his 'Test your IQ' type books in the 1970s.


I also remember my father enthusing about this book in the 1960s, when I was still at junior school. I also remember losing a degree of trust in my parents when I consistently got great scores doing the tests and in half the allotted time. I definately was not cheating. If only they had more confidence in my abilities then perhaps my self-confidence would be greater today.