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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?
(a) Peasants
(b) Auxiliaries
(c) Craftsman
(d) Rules

2. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Myth
(b) Life
(c) Story
(d) Argument

3. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."
(a) Recapitulation
(b) Determinism
(c) Creationism
(d) Evolution

4. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.
(a) reliable
(b) scientific
(c) logical
(d) plausible

5. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.
(a) many wartimes
(b) lack of sun
(c) warmer climate
(d) cooler climate

Short Answer Questions

1. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.

2. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."

3. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?

4. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

5. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.

(see the answer key)

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