Nascent Doubts May Presage Conceptual Clarity: Reply to Surbey

摘要: It is difficult for anyone to acknowledge that an idea he or she has been leaching may be invalid. I faced this situation several years ago and, after a period of vacillation, concluded heritability analysis, the dominant paradigm in behavioural genetics, was not merely weak at its foundations but actively misleading nonspecialist; hence, it ought relegated history science along with phlogiston, penis envy and cold fusion. During postdoctoral fellowship year McClearn DeFries Institute Behavioral Genetics University Colorado 1968-69, eagerly absorbed lessons Falconer my mentors, who were foremost authorities on analysis. These acquired easily because mathematically they so similar classic rendition analysis variance presented by Hays Winer, stans6cal gurus psychology graduate students period.