Linda Gottfredson

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Linda Susanne Gottfredson (born June 24, 1947 in San Francisco ) is an American psychologist and intelligence researcher.

Gottfredson is a professor at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) and the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) . Gottfredson receives research funding from the Pioneer Fund , which was founded in 1937 with the aim of scientifically researching the hereditary differences between people.

In 1994 she wrote the highly acclaimed essay "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," which was signed by 51 other intelligence researchers, including Raymond Cattell , Hans Eysenck , Garrett Hardin , Alan S. Kaufman , Nadeen L. Kaufman, and Paul E. Meehl .

Scientific work

Gottfredson dealt with the research area intelligence .

She advocates the following theses:

  1. There is a general factor of intelligence that can be measured with intelligence tests. This G-factor influences school, professional and social success.
  2. Intelligence is normally distributed in society, i. H. there would be a bell curve regarding intelligence distribution
  3. Different " large races " are said to have different intelligence
  4. Differences in intelligence are partly genetic
  5. Diet affects intelligence

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Linda Gottfredson: "Mainstream Science on Intelligence". Published December 13, 1994 by the Wall Street Journal .
  2. ↑ Linda S. Gottfredson (1999): The General Factor of Intelligence . In: Spectrum of Science special, title: "Intelligence", p. 24.

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personal data
SURNAME Gottfredson, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottfredson, Linda Susanne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco