1. Biography

2. Academic work

3. Honors

4. Selected articles and papers

5. References

6. External links

She is on the boards of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), and the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, and Society.

Gottfredson has received research grants worth $267,000 from the Pioneer Fund, an organization which has been described as racist and white supremacist.^[2][3][4][5] The University of Delaware unsuccesfully sought to block Gottfredson from receiving Pioneer Fund grants before reaching a legal settlement with her in 1992.

Biography

Gottfredson was born in San Francisco on June 24, 1947. She is a third generation university faculty member. Her father, Jack A. Howarth (died 2006), was a faculty at U.C. Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, as was his father.^[5][6] Gottfredson initially majored in biology, but later transferred to psychology with her first husband, Gary Don Gottfredson. In 1969, she received a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of California, Berkeley.^[7] She worked in the Peace Corps in Malaysia.^[8] Gottfredson and her husband went to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, where she received a Ph.D. in sociology in 1977.^[7]

Academic work

Gottfredson took a position at Hopkins' Center for Social Organization of Schools and investigated issues of occupational segregation and typology based on skill sets and intellectual capacity. She married Robert A. Gordon, who worked in a related area at Hopkins, and they divorced by the mid-90s.^[9][10]

In 1985, Gottfredson participated in a conference called "The g Factor in Employment Testing". The papers presented were published in the December 1986 issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, which she edited. In 1986, Gottfredson was appointed Associate Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark.

In 1989, The Washington Post reported that one of Gottfredson's presentations was cited favorably by an article in the National Association for the Advancement of White People's magazine.^[11]

That year, she presented a series of papers on general intelligence factor and employment. Gottfredson has said:

We now have out there what I call the egalitarian fiction that all groups are equal in intelligence. We have social policy based on that fiction. For example, the 1991 Civil Rights Act codified Griggs vs. Duke Power, which said that if you have disproportionate hiring by race, you are prima facie -- that's prima facie evidence of racial discrimination. ...Differences in intelligence have real world effects, whether we think they're there or not, whether we want to wish them away or not. And we don't do anybody any good, certainly not the low-IQ people, by denying that those problems exist.^[12]

While an assistant professor of Educational Studies in the late 1980s, Gottfredson applied for and received three grants from the Pioneer Fund, which was created to advocate research into eugenics.^[13] She was promoted to full professor at the University of Delaware in 1990.^[14] That year, her fourth grant application to the Pioneer Fund was rejected by the board of the University, which said the funding would undermine their university' affirmative action.^[13] Gottfredson challenged the ruling with assistance from the Center for Individual Rights and the American Association of University Professors.^[15] In 1992, after two and a half years of debate and protest, the University administration reached a settlement that once again allowed Gottfredson and Jan Blits to continue receiving research funding from the Pioneer Fund.^[13][16] The arbitrator of the case held that the University's research committee had violated its own standards of review by looking at the content of Gottfredson's research and that Gottfredson had a right to academic freedom that public perceptions alone did not suffice to overcome.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Gottfredson has defended the Pioneer Fund's president J. Phillipe Rushton, calling him "a scholar and a gentleman" whose "critics often act like neither".^[21][22] She has criticized sociologist Nathan Glazer of Harvard University, who wrote that the thesis of The Bell Curve would require African-Americans to "accept an inferior place in society" and which he felt posed the question of whether "the untruth is not better for American society than the truth."^[23] Gottfredson responded to Glazer by arguing that "Lying about race differences in achievement is harmful because it foments mutual recrimination" and would be "futile and harmful in the long run".^[24]

Gottfredson has been very critical of psychologist Robert Sternberg's work on the triarchic theory of intelligence, arguing that Sternberg has not demonstrated a distinction between practical intelligence and the analytical intelligence measured by IQ tests.^[25]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "Gottfredson has worked tirelessly to oppose any and all efforts to reduce racial inequality in both in the workplace and in society as a whole."^[26]

Honors

• George A Miller Award (for outstanding journal article across specialty areas), Society for General Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2008^[27]
• Mensa Foundation – Mensa Award for Excellence in Research, (2005) - for "Dissecting practical intelligence theory: Its claims and evidence".^[28]
• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, elected 1998.^[29]
• Fellow, American Psychological Association, elected 1994.
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, elected 1994.

Selected articles and papers

• {{Cite journal| title = Egalitarian Fiction and Collective Fraud

• {{Cite journal| title = Mainstream Science on Intelligence (editorial)

• {{Cite journal| title = Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life

• {{Cite journal| title = The general intelligence factor

• Circumscription and compromise (2006), Encyclopedia of Career Development. (Based on her much cited work on the subject.)^[30]
• Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health? (2004), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• {{Cite book| chapter = Chapter 9: Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help

• {{Cite book| chapter = Chapter 20: Social consequences of group differences in cognitive ability (Conseqüências sociais das diferenças de grupo na capacidade cognitiva)

• Flynn, Ceci, and Turkheimer on Race and Intelligence: Opening Moves (2007) Cato Unbound
• What if the Hereditarian Hypothesis Is True? (2003)

• {{Cite book| chapter = Chapter 1: Logical Fallacies Used to Dismiss the Evidence on Intelligence Testing

References

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• Linda S. Gottfredson homepage (with online prints of publications)

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