Mainstream Science on Intelligence

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"Mainstream Science on Intelligence" was an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on December 13, 1994.^[1] It was written by psychology professor Linda Gottfredson, and signed by Gottfredson and 51 other professors specializing in intelligence and related fields. 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 1 Controversy 2 Signers of the opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Controversy

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 "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns"^[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 Russell 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 political scientist Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute. Controversy surrounding the book's methods and conclusions sparked numerous responses from the academic community. Race and IQ, edited by the late Ashley Montagu, compiles some responses to the book.^[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.

[edit] 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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mainstream science on intelligence: An opinion piece with 52 signers, along with bibliography - re-published in Intelligence in 1997.
  • Editor's introduction, Douglas K. Detterman
• Journal: Intelligence - List of editorial board members.