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Linda Gottfredson

Psychology

#162

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#257

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#114

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Educational Psychology

#26

World Rank

#27

Historical Rank

#18

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Linda Gottfredson's Degrees

PhD Educational Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Linda Susanne Gottfredson is an American psychologist and writer. She is professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. She 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 .

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Linda Gottfredson's Published Works

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Circumscription and Compromise: A Developmental Theory of Occupational Aspirations. (1981) (2028)
Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life (1997) (1310)
Mainstream science on intelligence: An editorial with 52 signatories, history, and bibliography (1997) (848)
Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why? (2004) (590)
Intelligence: is it the epidemiologists' elusive "fundamental cause" of social class inequalities in health? (2004) (559)
Premorbid (early life) IQ and later mortality risk: systematic review. (2007) (457)
Applying Gottfredson ’ s Theory of Circumscription and Compromise in Career Guidance and Counseling (2004) (269)
Where and Why g Matters:Not a Mystery (2002) (227)
Dissecting practical intelligence theory: Its claims and evidence (2003) (173)
G: Highly general and highly practical (2002) (169)
Assessing Gender-Based Circumscription of Occupational Aspirations (1997) (165)
Societal consequences of the g factor in employment. (1986) (157)
Intelligence: Foundations and Issues in Assessment (2009) (116)
The Relation of Vocational Aspirations and Assessments to Employment Reality. (1974) (109)
The Challenge and Promise of Cognitive Career Assessment (2003) (104)
Occupational Aptitude Patterns Map: Development and implications for a theory of job aptitude requirements☆ (1986) (95)
Chapter 15 – g, Jobs and Life (2003) (88)
A follow-up study of dyslexic boys (1985) (83)
A challenge to vocational psychology: How important are aspirations in determining male career development?☆ (1981) (79)
The science and politics of race-norming. (1994) (77)
Reconsidering fairness: A matter of social and ethical priorities (1988) (76)
Foreword to “intelligence and social policy” (1997) (73)
The Meaning and Measurement of Environments in Holland's Theory (1999) (62)
What if the hereditarian hypothesis is true (2005) (61)
Life, Death, and Intelligence (2004) (61)
The g factor in employment (1986) (61)
Does a fitness factor contribute to the association between intelligence and health outcomes? Evidence from medical abnormality counts among 3654 US Veterans (2009) (61)
An analytical description of employment according to race, sex, prestige, and Holland type of work (1978) (60)
Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated (2009) (56)
Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud (1994) (54)
Construct validity of Holland's occupational typology in terms of prestige, census, Department of Labor, and other classification systems. (1980) (53)
Role of self-concept in vocational theory. (1985) (51)
Logical fallacies used to dismiss the evidence on intelligence testing. (2009) (49)
Schools and the g Factor (2004) (44)
Validity versus Utility of Mental Tests: Example of the SAT. (1986) (43)
Dilemmas in developing diversity programs. (1992) (43)
On Sternberg's “Reply to Gottfredson” (2003) (41)
Implications of Cognitive Differences for Schooling Within Diverse Societies (2003) (36)
Lessons in academic freedom as lived experience (2010) (35)
Explaining the adult careers of dyslexic boys: Variations in critical skills for high-level jobs (1984) (29)
Vocational Research Priorities (1982) (28)
SKILLS GAPS, NOT TESTS, MAKE RACIAL PROPORTIONALITY IMPOSSIBLE (2000) (28)
Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help. (2005) (28)
Aspiration-Job Match: Age Trends in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Young White Men. (1979) (24)
MEMBERS OF THE TASK FORCE (1995) (21)
Human Hierarchies, Health, and IQ (2005) (21)
Equal potential: A collective fraud (2000) (19)
Of what value is intelligence (2008) (19)
Applying Double Standards to “Divisive” Ideas: Commentary on Hunt and Carlson (2007) (2007) (19)
A g Theorist on Why Kovacs and Conway's Process Overlap Theory Amplifies, Not Opposes, g Theory (2016) (18)
Providing Black Youth More Access to Enterprising Work (1978) (18)
Hans Eysenck's theory of intelligence, and what it reveals about him (2016) (17)
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study. (1996) (17)
Equality or lasting inequality? (1990) (16)
Creating and criticizing theory (1983) (16)
Fairness in employment testing (1988) (16)
RACIALLY GERRYMANDERING THE CONTENT OF POLICE TESTS TO SATISFY THE U . S . JUSTICE DEPARTMENT : A Case Study (2004) (16)
Intelligence and Social Inequality (2013) (15)
Resolute ignorance on race and Rushton (2013) (14)
Employment Testing and Job Performance. (1990) (14)
g Theory: How Recurring Variation in Human Intelligence and the Complexity of Everyday Tasks Create Social Structure and the Democratic Dilemma (2018) (14)
Occupational Differentiation among White Men in the First Decade after High School. (1981) (12)
Race and Sex Differences in Occupational Aspirations: Their Development and Consequences for Occupational Segregation. (1978) (12)
Why is intelligence correlated with semen quality? Biochemical pathways common to sperm and neuron function and their vulnerability to pleiotropic mutations (2009) (12)
Read our reports and examine the data a response to Prediger and Cole (1975) (11)
The Sex Fairness of Unnormed Interest Inventories. (1982) (10)
The practical significance of black–white differences in intelligence (1987) (10)
The Adult Occupational Success of Dyslexic Boys: A Large Scale, Long-Term Follow Up. (1983) (9)
The new challenge to academic freedom (1996) (8)
Jensen, Jensenism, and the sociology of intelligence (1998) (7)
The role of intelligence and education in the division of labor (1984) (7)
Commentary: Confronting the New Particularism in Academe (1996) (6)
What Do We Know About Intelligence (2016) (6)
How Valid Are Occupational Reinforcer Pattern Scores (1980) (5)
A Multiple-Labor Market Model of Occupational Achievement. Report No. 225. (1977) (4)
Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (1996) (4)
Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life (2001) (3)
The Construct Validity of Holland's Occupational Classification in Terms of Prestige, Census, Department of Labor and Other Classification Systems. Report No. 260. (1978) (3)
Multiculturalism in the workplace. (1997) (3)
The Validity of an Occupational Classification Based on Job Competencies for Assessing Employability. (1983) (2)
The Relation of Education and Situs of Work to Economic Differences between Blacks and Whites. (1977) (2)
A Skills Map: The General and Specific Competencies Required in Different Occupations. Progress Report. (1981) (2)
Pursuing Patterns , Puzzles , and Paradoxes (2010) (2)
Environments are genetic, too. (2003) (2)
Intelligence: Are we getting smarter? (2011) (1)
Intelligence: What is it? (2011) (1)
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) (2009) (1)
Change and Development in Careers. Final Report. (1980) (1)
An Analystical Description of Employment According to Race, Sex, Prestige, and Holland Type of Work. Report No. 249. (1978) (1)
Intelligence: Boosting brainpower (2011) (1)
Le facteur global d'intelligence (1998) (1)
The General Intelligence Factor Despite some popular assertions , a single factor for intelligence , called g , can be measured with IQ tests and does predict success in life by (2016) (0)
Hereditarian Hypothesis 3 What if the Hereditarian Hypothesis Is True ? (2003) (0)
g, Jobs, and Life: Honoring Arthur R. Jensen (2002) (0)
Summary and discussion. (2009) (0)
Commentary (1996) (0)
James Watson ’ s most inconvenient truth : Race realism and the moralistic fallacy (2012) (0)
Occupational Differentiation in the First Decade after High School. Report No. 259. (1978) (0)
Announcement of Lifetime Achievement Award 8:30-10:00, Symposium: Predicting Academic Achievement Using Non-g Variance Organizer: Thomas R. Coyle (6-10) 10:00-10:20 Coffee Break 10:20-12:00 Talks, generally about achievement 10:20-10:40 A genetically informed study of infant mental and motor predict (2010) (0)
The Transition to Noncommunicable Disease: How to Reduce Its Unsustainable Global Burden by Increasing Cognitive Access to Health Self-Management (2021) (0)
Puzzles 1 Pursuing Patterns , Puzzles , and Paradoxes (2009) (0)
Logical Fallacies Used to “ Discredit ” Intelligence Testing (2007) (0)
Do we need sex-specific occupational prestige scales? (1988) (0)
Truth in the Balance? A Comment on Estes (1993) (0)
Evolutionary perspective on raising intelligence (2014) (0)
Racial Differences in the Evolution of Educational and Occupational Aspirations. (1979) (0)
Intelligence: What makes someone smart? (2011) (0)
What Do We Know About Intelligence? [with replies] (2016) (0)
Letters to the editor (1969) (0)

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