MAINSTREAM SCIENCE ON INTELLIGENCE

'"Mainstream Science on Intelligence"' is an opinion piece written by Linda Gottfredson, published in the ''Wall Street Journal'' on December 13, 1994. ^[1] It listed 25 statements which claimed to uphold findings on the subject of intelligence research discussed in the controversial book, ''The Bell Curve''. The opinion piece was reprinted in the psychology journal''Intelligence'' in 1997 with additional information and a bibliography.

Contents

Controversy

Signers of the opinion piece in the ''Wall Street Journal''

References

External links

Controversy

Roughly a third of the 52 signatories out of 100 psychologists hand-picked by Gottfredson to receive the statement, including Gottfredson herself, have received grants from the Pioneer Fund, a philanthropy that is controversial for its focused support of eugenics. Eight signers, including Gottfredson, sit on the editorial board of ''Intelligence'' which reprinted it; Detterman, one of the signers, founded the journal in 1977 and is its editor. ^[2]
The ''Bell Curve'' controversy prompted a report by a task force of the American Psychological Association, titled "" ^[3]explicating what the mainstream association of psychologists have to say about the subject of intelligence.
The book ''The Bell Curve Debate'' edited by UCLA historian Russsell Jacoby and N. Glauberman ^[4] is a compilation of history, documents and opinions from scholars, representing a wide spectrum of disciplines weighing in on the subject of the controversies sparked by ''The Bell Curve'' which was written by the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein and conservative political scientist Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute. Because their book had not been evaluated in advance by scholars in a process known as peer review which is the standard among academics, and due to the controversial nature of both their research and their conclusions, ''The Bell Curve'' generated energetic responses from the academic community. One such compilation of critical responses to ''The Bell Curve'' is ''Race and IQ'' edited by the late Ashley Montagu ^[5].
The opinion piece that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal represents the side of the debate that supports the claims and conclusions by Herrnstein and Murray. Montagu's book portrays critical commentary.

Signers of the opinion piece in the ''Wall Street Journal''

★ Richard D. Arvey, University of Minnesota

★ Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., University of Minnesota

★ John B. Carroll, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

★ Raymond B. Cattell, University of Hawaii

★ David B. Cohen, University of Texas at Austin

★ Rene V. Dawis, University of Minnesota

★ Douglas K. Detterman, Case Western Reserve University

★ Marvin Dunnette, University of Minnesota

★ Hans Eysenck, University of London

★ Jack M. Feldman, Georgia Institute of Technology

★ Edwin A. Fleishman, George Mason University

★ Grover C. Gilmore, Case Western Reserve University

★ Robert A. Gordon, Johns Hopkins University

★ Linda S. Gottfredson, University of Delaware

★ Robert L. Greene, Case Western Reserve University

★ Richard J. Haier, University of California, Irvine

★ Garrett Hardin, University of California, Santa Barbara

★ Robert Hogan,University of Tulsa

★ Joseph M. Horn, University of Texas at Austin

★ Lloyd G. Humphreys, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

★ John E. Hunter, Michigan State University

★ Seymour W. Itzkoff, Smith College

★ Douglas N. Jackson, University of Western Ontario

★ James J. Jenkins, University of South Florida

★ Arthur R. Jensen, University of California, Berkeley

★ Alan S. Kaufman, University of Alabama

★ Nadeen L. Kaufman, California School of Professional Psychology at San Diego

★ Timothy Z. Keith, Alfred University

★ Nadine Lambert, University of California, Berkeley

★ John C. Loehlin, University of Texas at Austin

★ David Lubinski, Iowa State University

★ David T. Lykken, University of Minnesota

★ Richard Lynn, University of Ulster at Coleraine

★ Paul E. Meehl, University of Minnesota

★ R. Travis Osborne, University of Georgia

★ Robert Perloff, University of Pittsburgh

★ Robert Plomin, Institute of Psychiatry, London

★ Cecil R. Reynolds, Texas A & M University

★ David C. Rowe, University of Arizona

★ J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist, University of Western Ontario

★ Vincent Sarich, University of California, Berkeley

★ Sandra Scarr, University of Virginia

★ Frank L. Schmidt, University of Iowa

★ Lyle F. Schoenfeldt, Texas A & M University

★ James C. Sharf, George Washington University

★ Herman Spitz, former director E.R. Johnstone Training and Research Center, Bordentown, N.J.

★ Julian C. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University

★ Del Thiessen, University of Texas at Austin

★ Lee A. Thompson, Case Western Reserve University

★ Robert M. Thorndike, Western Washington University

★ Philip Anthony Vernon, University of Western Ontario

★ Lee Willerman, University of Texas at Austin

References

1. Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994). Mainstream Science on Intelligence. ''Wall Street Journal'', p A18.
2. Editorial Board. ''Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Journal''
3. Neisser, U., G. Boodoo, T.J. Bouchard, Jr., et al. 1996. "Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns." American Psychologist 51: 77-101
4. (New York: Times Books, 1995)
5. ISBN 019510221-5 Oxford University Press: 1999

External links

★ Mainstream science on intelligence: An opinion piece with 52 signers, along with bibliography - re-published in ''Intelligence'' in 1997.

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★ Editor's introduction, Douglas K. Detterman

★ Journal: ''Intelligence'' - List of editorial board members.