15 Facts About Linda Gottfredson

Linda Susanne Gottfredson is an American psychologist and writer.

Linda Gottfredson is professor emerita of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society.

Linda Gottfredson is best known for writing the 1994 letter "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was published in the Wall Street Journal in defense of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial book The Bell Curve.

Linda Gottfredson is on the boards of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, the International Society for Intelligence Research, and the editorial boards of the academic journals Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, and Society.

Linda 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.

Linda Gottfredson married Robert A Gordon, who worked in a related area at Hopkins, and they divorced by the mid-1990s.

In 1985, Linda Gottfredson participated in a conference called "The g Factor in Employment Testing".

In 1986, Linda Gottfredson was appointed associate professor of Educational Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark.

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

Linda Gottfredson was promoted to full professor at the University of Delaware in 1990.

Linda Gottfredson challenged the ruling with assistance from the Center for Individual Rights and the American Association of University Professors.

Linda 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.

Linda Gottfredson has received research grants worth $267,000 from the Pioneer Fund, an organization described as racist and white supremacist.

Linda Gottfredson has defended the work of J Philippe Rushton, who served as president of the Pioneer Fund and whose research focused on a purported correlation between race and intelligence.

The University of Delaware unsuccessfully sought to block Linda Gottfredson from receiving Pioneer Fund grants before reaching a legal settlement with her in 1992.