Race and intelligence controversy

An achievement gap refers to the observed disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achievement gap"

Arthur Jensen is a prominent educational psychologist, known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another. Jensen is a leading authority on IQ, and his work on testing bias is canonical. He is a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that concludes genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality traits. He is the author of over 400 scientific papers published in refereed journals. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Jensen"

Audrey M. Shuey ( 1910- 1977) was a researcher on race and intelligence and a Pioneer Fund grantee. She worked at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Audrey M. Shuey"

Charles A. Murray (born 1943) is an influential American policy writer and researcher. He is best known as the co-author of The Bell Curve in 1994, and for his influential work on welfare reform. He is also the author of a short book advocating libertarianism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Murray (author)"

Christopher Richard Brand (born in Preston, England, 1 June 1943) is a British author and psychology researcher who is famous for his controversial views on race and intelligence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chris Brand"

Craniometry is the technique of measuring the bones of the skull. ...more on Wikipedia about "Craniometry"

Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through social intervention. The goals have variously been to create more intelligent people, save society resources, lessen human suffering and reduce health problems. Proposed means of achieving these goals most commonly include birth control, selective breeding, and genetic engineering. Critics argue eugenics is a pseudoscience, that it has a potential for "objectifying" human characteristics, and that historically it has been a means whereby social thinking culminated in coercive state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, even genocide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eugenics" My http://www.shortopedia.com and me. shortopedia

Glayde D. Whitney ( 1939— 8 January 2002) was a behavioral geneticist and psychology professor at Florida State University. Beyond his work into the genetics of sensory system function in mice, in his later life he supported race and intelligence research and eugenics, and for these views was frequently accused of supporting scientific racism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glayde Whitney"

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for best science book. A documentary based on the book was broadcast on PBS in July, 2005, produced by the National Geographic Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guns, Germs, and Steel"

Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was a notable psychologist. At the time of his death, Hans Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist (Haggbloom et al., 2002). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hans Eysenck"

Henry Herbert Goddard ( 1866 – 1957) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work, The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness and for being the first to translate the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry H. Goddard"

In 1971, in the case Griggs v. Duke Power Co. ** , the US Supreme Court handed down a seminal ruling which framed US public policy on adverse impact. Griggs concerned a company which had rejected a large number of Black applicants who either lacked a high-school education or performed poorly on a paper-and-pencil cognitive test. Referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Court wrote, ...more on Wikipedia about "Intelligence and public policy"

IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a controversial 2002 book by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. This book argues that differences in national income (in the form of per capita gross domestic product) correlate with, and can be at least partially attributed to, differences in average national IQ. ...more on Wikipedia about "IQ and the Wealth of Nations"

Some researchers have concluded from twin studies and adoption studies that IQ has high heritability, and this is often interpreted by the general public as meaning that there is an immutable genetic factor affecting or determining intelligence. This hereditarian interpretation fuels much of the controversy over books such as The Bell Curve, which claimed that various racial groups have lower or higher have a lower or group intelligence than other racial and ethnic groups ( Asians and Ashkenazi Jews, according to The Bell Curve, are slightly more intelligent than generic whites, whereas African-Americans have slightly lower IQ's) and suggested changing public policy as a result of these findings. ...more on Wikipedia about "IQ test controversy"

Professor John Philippe (Phil) Rushton Ph.D , D.Sc (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, best known for his controversial work on racial differences. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Philippe Rushton"

James R. Flynn, (also Jim Flynn), Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is notable for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-on-year rise of IQ test scores in all parts of the world. He is an active participant in the academic debate on race and intelligence. Originally from Chicago, Flynn arrived in New Zealand in 1963. ...more on Wikipedia about "James R. Flynn"

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American nonfiction author, evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and biogeographer. He is most notably known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). ...more on Wikipedia about "Jared Diamond"

Linda Susanne Gottfredson (born 24 June 1947) is an American sociologist who publishes on intelligence, race, and human resources. Her work has been influential in shaping U.S. public and private policies regarding affirmative action, hiring quotas, and “race-norming” on aptitude tests. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linda Gottfredson"

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard ( June 29, 1883– May 1, 1950; usually known only by his middle and last names) was an American political theorist, eugenicist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of prominent books of early 20th-century scientific racism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lothrop Stoddard"

Madison Grant ( November 19, 1865 – May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a eugenicist, Grant was responsible for one of the most famous works of scientific racism, a 1916 book which was later used by officials in Nazi Germany to justify their racial policies of compulsory sterilization and compulsory euthanasia, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation polices in the United States. As a conservationist, Grant was credited with the saving of many different species of animals, founding many different environmental and philanthropic organizations, and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management. ...more on Wikipedia about "Madison Grant"

The Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to physical anthropology and cultural anthropology and associated with the Pioneer Fund. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, languages, race, etc. It is published by Scott-Townsend Publishers ** and was founded in 1960, aiming to reunify biology with anthropology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mankind Quarterly" It must be http://www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia

The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black/interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. The aim of the study was to determine the contribution of genetic or cultural/environmental factors to the poorer performance of black children on IQ tests and in school as compared to white children. The initial study was published in 1976 by Sandra Scarr and Richard A. Weinberg. A follow up study was published in 1992 by Richard Weinberg, Sandra Scarr and Irwin D. Waldman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study"

"Model minority" refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members stereotypically achieve a higher degree of success than the population average. This success is typically in income, education, and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability. ...more on Wikipedia about "Model minority"

The Pioneer Fund is a foundation that aims to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences. The Pioneer Fund was established in 1937 and supports work in behavioral genetics, intelligence, social demography, and group differences ( sex, social class, and race). The fund publishes a journal titled Mankind Quarterly, and the fund is currently headed by psychology professor J. Philippe Rushton. It is one of the most prominent sources of funding for race and intelligence research, and thus is the subject of ongoing controversy. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit organization (and itself a subject of controversy), lists the Pioneer Fund on a list of organizations it calls " hate groups," citing its funding of some organizations and individuals the SPLC considers racist, and the funding of race and intelligence research. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Pioneer Fund"

Race and intelligence is a controversial area of anthropology and intelligence research studying the nature, origins, and practical consequences of racial and ethnic group differences in intelligence test scores and other measures of cognitive ability. ...more on Wikipedia about "Race and intelligence" Must see shortopedia Race_and_intelligence_controversy

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