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20The Barrie Examiner Wednesday Nov 24 1976 IN DEFENCE Edward Posen president of Host RentACar Ltd de fends the federal govern ment Monday against recent criticisms over its method of allocating space to car rental companies in airports CP Photo Some data made up SHIGI tAPI Ques tions of fraud are being raised about the classic work of Brit ish psychologist who maitiv tained that intelligence is determined primarily by heredity published reports say The late Sir yril Burt whose writings are used extensively in the controversy over racial dif ferences and intelligence is being accused by critics of alv tering his data and possibly even making up some of it In the Nov 26 issue of Sci ence the journal of the Ameri can Association for the Ad vancement of Science report by Nicholas Wade says charges of fraud cloud Burts work primary source for proponents of the heredity theory Among those who have drawn on So years of Burts work are Arthur Jensen of the tniversity of aliforiiia and Richard llerr nsteiii of Harvard who main tam that racial differences in IQ scores are caused primarily by heredity and not by envi ronment Burt who died in 1071 at the age of 88 was preeminent among his colleagues in Eng land and his work was never so riously challenged during his iifetiine tut since his death his conclusions have been sus pect because of inconsistencies iiihis data PROBLEMSFULVI Jensen himself discovered problems in Burts work that unduly strain the laws of chance and can only mean er ror the Science report said The report said charges of fraud surfaced In October after the London Sunday Times 105 tioiied whether Burts two chief coauthors of his later work ever eXIsted The Times said it found no references to Miss Margaret Howard or Miss onway in records of London ifmversity the address given on scientific papers However the paper later re ported that Miss Howard was on the faculty in the 1030s and it found Manchester iniver sin professor who said he re meinbered her Burts backers concede that there are problems with some of his later work but that his early work is sound However critics say Burt often used un published studies that cannot now be found as references in Ill articles Burt governmental advisor in the 1030s and Hos was in fluential in setting up the three tier llrit iin educational system Reflecting his view that in telligence is largely Itiliittt children were put at one iduca tiotial level for life on the basis of test given at age if ritics say Burt may have al tered his experimental data to fit his theories Heredity propo nents say lturts data is not cru cial to their theories and that the problems may haVe been due to an old ailing mans carelessness IILIII III KIIItS IIIIIZ Ia tAIt Since film the only candle festival in the Iiiiteil States has been held annually in this small leniisyl vania IlilIl community The event features more than 5000 candles placed on Wood lattices over stream in IIII7 Springs Park Queen of andles starts the ceremony at Miracl Monarch ALL PURPOSE FLOUR LB BAG Greenland 100 Vegetable Oil PARCHMENT WRAP MARGARINE LB PKG Canada Grade LARGE WHITE EGGS DOZEN COCA COLA 40 fl oz btl Pius 20c deposit 39° Plain or Rulilos IIDgltato Chips 250 bag 88 01 Mountain Blond Filter Grind 12 oz pita Party Pink or Cookie Jar Dare Cookies lb bog Coffee Mother Parker Tea Bags pkg at 75 15 fro MIRACLE REDEEMS ALL SUPERMARKET coupons Chicken Turkey Salisbury Steak Brookpark FROZEN DINNERS 11 OZ PKG Powdered SUNLIGHT DETERGENT LB BOX Canada Grade MEDIUM EGGS DOZEN it 391195 no Partly Skimmed FRESH MILK OT BAG OR JUG Plus 40c deposit on jug 119 Homogenized FRESH MILK qt bag or jug Granulated WHITE SUGAR kg PKG SLICED BREAD 24 OZ LOAF 129 Plus 40¢ deposit on jug Frozen RICHS COFFEE RICH 32 FL OZ CONT Instant NESCAFE COFFEE 10 OZ JAR CH RISTIES FUDGYOBAR 10 OZ PKG SUNLIGHT DETERGENT 24 FL OZ BTL Mira Mart Chocolate Creme Quarters Coloured Imperial Margarine lb pkg Tropicana Orange Eiatééi White Tuna Product of USA oz tln Endive Escarole Stolnborg 14 oz pkg Marble Pound Cake not available Mondays Gay Lea Chip Dip pint Filled Donuts 809 at available Mondays 69 Product at British Columbia Canada Fancy Grade Rod and Golden DELICIOUS APPLES o7c 78° 39 33° Produce ol Ontario or New Brunswick Canada No Grade Table Potatoes 10 LB BAG Product ot USA Green Beans Mrs Bake Freshly Baked Raisin Bread 16 oz loaf 4444