Helmuth Nyborg

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Helmuth Sørensen Nyborg is a Danish psychologist and former Olympic athlete. He was a Professor of developmental psychology at Aarhus University where his main research topic was the connection between hormones and intelligence. Among other things, he has worked on increasing the intelligence of girls with Turner's syndrome by giving them estrogen. He has been continually under attack by the broad Left.

Intelligence studies

Nyborg has researched topics such as the inheritance of intelligence and the relationship between sex and intelligence. In 2004, he wrote an article in Personality and Individual Differences which claimed a five-point average IQ difference in favour of men. This led to strong reactions, for example in an editorial by the Liberal-Left Danish newspaper Politiken.[1] In 2011, he argued in an article that migration from Third World countries to Denmark would cause a dysgenic effect on the country's average IQ over time.

Nyborg has argued that white people tend to be more intelligent than black people,[2] that immigration from non-European countries leads to a decline in the average intelligence of the receiving European country,[3] and that atheists may be more intelligent than religious people.[4][5][6][7] For obvious reasons, his papers have been criticized within and outside leftist academia, and the Danish Committee for Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) ruled that he committed scientific misconduct in his paper The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection.[8] This decision was later overturned by a Danish court, clearing him of the charges.[9]

Sex-related differences in general intelligence (2005)

Nyborg's 2005 paper Sex-related differences in general intelligence g, brain size, and social status [10] was published in Personality and Individual Differences. Nyborg was suspended following Left-wing criticism of his research.[11] Aarhus University assembled a committee to investigate, and found him innocent of fraud, but guilty of "grossly negligent behavior" and gave him a severe reprimand.[11] He was eventually acquitted by the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty of the charges of scientific misconduct and the university was forced to reinstall him to his chair.[12] On 21 September 2006, the university gave Nyborg a "severe reprimand", revoked his suspension, and declared the case closed.[13] According to a 2006 news story in Science journal, "Colleagues from around the world have rallied to his defense, accusing the university of having political motives, and claiming that the perported errors in his research were trivial."[11]

The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection (2011)

In 2011 Nyborg also published "The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection"[14] in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, arguing that Denmark was likely to experience a dysgenic effect on intelligence due to immigration from the Middle East. Following publication he was again indicted by the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD), accused of scientific misconduct and of plagiarism by a number of Leftist 'scholars' from the University of Aarhus. They accused him of using a statistical model for the demographic prognoses that was based on the work of Jørn Ebbe Vig, without giving credit, and for using misleading statistics by assuming that Middle Eastern people in Denmark maintained the same reproduction rates as in their countries of origin. Vig had previously published similar demographic models in the journal of Den Danske Forening, a Danish fascist organization.[15][16][17][18] As a result, on 31 October 2013 he was convicted of scientific misconduct by the Danish Council for Scientific Misconduct after a two-year investigation. They found him guilty on two charges out of six in total, of which the last was "various other complaints". The first was that he had published the paper without crediting as co-author Jørn Ebbe Vig, whose previously published texts were incorporated into the article without acknowledgement. The DCSD considered that Vig should have been credited, because of the substantial contribution, in terms of data, method and text. Nyborg stated that he had offered co-authorship to Vig, but that the offer was declined and Vig had requested not to be mentioned, although did not forbid his data republication, making Nyborg choose to publish it himself. The second charge was that Nyborg had neglected to mention in the methodology section that he had converted a total fertility rate into a crude birth rate, a mistake which, because of its consequences, the DCSD considered to be equivalent to constructing data without acknowledging having done so, or substituting fictive data. When Nyborg learned that this was a problem, he sent an addendum to the journal, which is common practice when errors or omissions are found in published papers. However, the DCSD still considered it scientific misconduct, since they considered it an example of gross negligence.[19] In 2015 the journal published an editorial commenting on the paper concluding that Nyborg had not committed fraud or plagiarism.[20] This conclusion was based on the verdict of an ad hoc working group consisting of the Scot, Ian Deary, the very young Jelte Wicherts[21], and Americans [the late] John Loehlin and William Revelle.

Nyborg then sued the DCSD to get the verdict reversed, won his case in March 2016, and in addition was awarded costs of over 200,000 kr (approximately US$25,000).[22][23]

Speaking

Amongst many engagements to speak, Nyborg addressed the annual conference of the Traditional Britain Group in London in October 2022.[24]

Publications

Nyborg is the editor of a 2003 festschrift, The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur Jensen, published by Pergamon Press, (ISBN: 0080437931). In 2012, he was the editor of a special issue of Personality and Individual Differences dedicated to celebrating the 80th birthday of another famous psychometrician, British psychologist and author of many books, Professor Richard Lynn.[25]

Sources

  1. ↑ Leder i Dagbladet Politiken: G for galskab. Politiken.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Nyborg, H.; Jensen, A. R. (2000). "Black–white differences on various psychometric tests: Spearman's hypothesis tested on American armed services veterans". Personality and Individual Differences 28 (3): 593–599. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00122-1. 
  3. ↑ Nyborg, H. (2012). "The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian selection". Personality and Individual Differences 53 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031. 
  4. ↑ Lynn, R.; Harvey, J.; Nyborg, H. (2009). "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations". Intelligence 37: 11–15. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004. 
  5. ↑ Nyborg, H. (2009). "The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans". Intelligence 37: 81–93. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.08.003. 
  6. ↑ Race-læren på psykologi, Aarhus Universitet / FAKLEN.DK – en humanistisk modoffensiv. Faklen.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Template:In lang Næse til omstridt forsker. Politiken.dk. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
  8. ↑ Nyborg, Helmuth (July 2012). "The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection". Personality and Individual Differences 53 (2): 118–125. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031. 
  9. ↑ Denmark court clears controversial psychologist of misconduct charges – Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch. retractionwatch.com (30 March 2016).
  10. ↑ Nyborg, Helmuth (August 2005). "Sex-related differences in general intelligence g, brain size, and social status". Personality and Individual Differences 39 (3): 497–509. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.12.011. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Cleverness Controversy". Science 314 (5804): 1365b. December 2006. doi:10.1126/science.314.5804.1365b. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol314/issue5804/newsmakers.dtl. 
  12. ↑ 090707-Final Settlement of Nyborg Case. Au.dk. Retrieved on 14 February 2012.
  13. ↑ Anders Frølund, Rector's decision regarding the Helmuth Nyborg case Public statement by the university, 29 September 2006
  14. ↑ Helmuth Nyborg: The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection
  15. ↑ "Nyborgs konsulent er medstifter af Den Danske Forening". information.dk (25 July 2013)
  16. ↑ FORSKERforum: Helmuth Nyborg i ny uredelighed (hentet 25 July 2013)
  17. ↑ [1] punkt 4, side 35
  18. ↑ Danmarks Statistik: Anmeldt professor bruger manipulerede tal Template:Webarchive. politiken.dk (20 September 2011)
  19. ↑ Afgørelse fra Udvalget vedrørende videnskabelig uredelighed for kultur- og samfundsvidenskabelig forskning (UKSF). Retrieved on 8 November 2013.
  20. ↑ Vernon, Tony (2015). "Editor's Note". Personality and Individual Differences 78: 100–101. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.024. ISSN 0191-8869. 
  21. ↑ Wicherts only received his M.A. from the University of Amsterdam in 2002, and gained Ph.D. in 2007.
  22. ↑ Danish: Professor frifindes for uredelighed. jyllands-posten.dk (30 March 2016)
  23. ↑ Denmark court clears controversial psychologist of misconduct charges (20 March 2016). Retrieved on 27 May 2016.
  24. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYvNvyVupgM
  25. ↑ Evolution of race and sex differences in intelligence and personality: Tribute to Richard Lynn at eighty. Personality and Individual Differences. Volume 53, Issue 2, July 2012. Helmuth Nyborg (ed.)
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