Helmuth Nyborg, Date of Birth

    

Helmuth Nyborg

Danish canoeist, researcher, psychologist, politician

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1937

Profession: scientist, psychologist, canoeist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Helmuth Nyborg

  • Helmuth Sørensen Nyborg (born 5 January 1937) is a Danish psychologist and author.
  • He is former professor of developmental psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark and Olympic canoeist.
  • His main research topic is 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.
  • His research was censured for political reasons by the administration of Aarhus University in 2007, forcing his retirement.
  • He was later cleared by the governmental Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD).Nyborg is a controversial figure among the Danish public for his research on topics such as the inheritance of intelligence and the relationship between sex and intelligence.
  • His article in Personality and Individual Differences, in which he reports a five-point average IQ difference in favour of men, has led to strong reactions in the Danish public and academia, for example in an editorial by the Danish newspaper Politiken.
  • 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.In his research Nyborg has argued that white people tend to be more intelligent than blacks that immigration from non-Western countries leads to a decline in the average intelligence of the receiving Western country and that atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.
  • His papers have been heavily criticized within and outside academia and in 2013, the Danish Committees for Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) ruled that he committed scientific misconduct in his paper The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian selection; this decision was later overturned by a Danish court, clearing him of the charges.A 2019 study found him to be the 6th most controversial intelligence researcher.

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