Linda S Gottfredson
Biographic Data
| ID | 698942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda S Gottfredson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottfredson |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTFREDSON L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2255-7646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Premorbid (early life) IQ and Later Mortality Risk: Systematic Review
What if the hereditarian hypothesis is true
Rushton and Jensen (this issue) make a strong empirical case that the long-standing, worldwide Black-White average differences in cognitive ability are more plausibly explained by their “hereditarian ” (50% genetic causation) theory than by “culture-only ” (0 % genetic causation) theory. This commentary also examines whether their data warrant the implications they draw for public policy, and whether critics are correct that sometimes it is bette…
Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?
Large epidemiological studies of almost an entire population in Scotland have found that intelligence (as measured by an IQ-type test) in childhood predicts substantial differences in adult morbidity and mortality, including deaths from cancers and cardiovascular diseases. These relations remain significant after controlling for socioeconomic variables. One possible, partial explanation of these results is that intelligence enhances individuals' …
Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health
Virtually all indicators of physical health and mental competence favor persons of higher socioeconomic status (SES). Conventional theories in the social sciences assume that the material disadvantages of lower SES are primarily responsible for these inequalities, either directly or by inducing psychosocial harm. These theories cannot explain, however, why the relation between SES and health outcomes (knowledge, behavior, morbidity, and mortality…
Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible
Recent bans on racial preferences in some states have increased the political pressure to abandon cognitive testing to raise rates of minority hiring and college admissions.However, general skills gaps, not tests, are the major remaining impediment to racial parity in outcomes.Data on the size, stability, and functional importance of racial gaps in cognitive skills show the futility of seeking racial parity without first closing skills gaps.Lower…
Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible
Recent bans on racial preferences in some states have increased the political pressure to abandon cognitive testing to raise rates of minority hiring and college admissions. However, general skills gaps, not tests, are the major remaining impediment to racial parity in outcomes. Data on the size, stability, and functional importance of racial gaps in cognitive skills show the futility of seeking racial parity without first closing skills gaps. Lo…
Equal potential: A collective fraud
Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
The New Challenge to Academic Freedom
Academics have developed principles and policies ofacademic freedom during the last century in order to protect intellectual inquiry from ideological and political interference. One recent academic freedom case is compared to several earlier in the century in order to illustrate how threats to academic freedom have changed in recent decades. Most importantly, threats now come primarily from within rather than outside academe. Even the best academ…
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study
both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate. Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of tests in the service of race-based goals. This article illustrates such a case by describing how the content of a police entrance examination in Nassau County, New York, was stripped of…
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study
Discrimination law and its aggressive enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate.Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of tests in the service of race-based goals.This article illustrates such a case by describing how the co…
The science and politics of race-norming
Disparate impact (racial imbalance) in employee selection constitutes prima facie evidence of unlawful discrimination.Research in personnel psychology has shown, however, that valid and unbiased selection procedures often guarantee disparate impact and that they will continue to do so as long as there remain large racial disparities in job-related skills and abilities.Employers are in a legal bind because often they can avoid disparate impact onl…
The science and politics of race-norming
Disparate impact (racial imbalance) in employee selection constitutes prima facie evidence of unlawful discrimination. Research in personnel psychology has shown, however, that valid and unbiased selection procedures often guarantee disparate impact and that they will continue to do so as long as there remain large racial disparities in job-related skills and abilities. Employers are in a legal bind because often they can avoid disparate impact o…
Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud
Equality or lasting inequality
A follow-up study of dyslexic boys
Vocational Research Priorities
Circumscription and compromise: A developmental theory of occupational aspirations.
Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health
Virtually all indicators of physical health and mental competence favor persons of higher socioeconomic status (SES). Conventional theories in the social sciences assume that the material disadvantages of lower SES are primarily responsible for these inequalities, either directly or by inducing psychosocial harm. These theories cannot explain, however, why the relation between SES and health outcomes (knowledge, behavior, morbidity, and mortality…
What if the hereditarian hypothesis is true
Rushton and Jensen (this issue) make a strong empirical case that the long-standing, worldwide Black-White average differences in cognitive ability are more plausibly explained by their “hereditarian ” (50% genetic causation) theory than by “culture-only ” (0 % genetic causation) theory. This commentary also examines whether their data warrant the implications they draw for public policy, and whether critics are correct that sometimes it is bette…
Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud
Equality or lasting inequality
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study
both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate. Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of tests in the service of race-based goals. This article illustrates such a case by describing how the content of a police entrance examination in Nassau County, New York, was stripped of…
Equal potential: A collective fraud
Vocational Research Priorities
Circumscription and compromise: A developmental theory of occupational aspirations.
Vocational Research Priorities
A follow-up study of dyslexic boys
Equality or lasting inequality
The science and politics of race-norming
Disparate impact (racial imbalance) in employee selection constitutes prima facie evidence of unlawful discrimination.Research in personnel psychology has shown, however, that valid and unbiased selection procedures often guarantee disparate impact and that they will continue to do so as long as there remain large racial disparities in job-related skills and abilities.Employers are in a legal bind because often they can avoid disparate impact onl…
The science and politics of race-norming
Disparate impact (racial imbalance) in employee selection constitutes prima facie evidence of unlawful discrimination. Research in personnel psychology has shown, however, that valid and unbiased selection procedures often guarantee disparate impact and that they will continue to do so as long as there remain large racial disparities in job-related skills and abilities. Employers are in a legal bind because often they can avoid disparate impact o…
Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud
The New Challenge to Academic Freedom
Academics have developed principles and policies ofacademic freedom during the last century in order to protect intellectual inquiry from ideological and political interference. One recent academic freedom case is compared to several earlier in the century in order to illustrate how threats to academic freedom have changed in recent decades. Most importantly, threats now come primarily from within rather than outside academe. Even the best academ…
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study
both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate. Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of tests in the service of race-based goals. This article illustrates such a case by describing how the content of a police entrance examination in Nassau County, New York, was stripped of…
Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study
Discrimination law and its aggressive enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate.Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of tests in the service of race-based goals.This article illustrates such a case by describing how the co…
Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible
Recent bans on racial preferences in some states have increased the political pressure to abandon cognitive testing to raise rates of minority hiring and college admissions.However, general skills gaps, not tests, are the major remaining impediment to racial parity in outcomes.Data on the size, stability, and functional importance of racial gaps in cognitive skills show the futility of seeking racial parity without first closing skills gaps.Lower…
Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible
Recent bans on racial preferences in some states have increased the political pressure to abandon cognitive testing to raise rates of minority hiring and college admissions. However, general skills gaps, not tests, are the major remaining impediment to racial parity in outcomes. Data on the size, stability, and functional importance of racial gaps in cognitive skills show the futility of seeking racial parity without first closing skills gaps. Lo…
Equal potential: A collective fraud
Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?
Large epidemiological studies of almost an entire population in Scotland have found that intelligence (as measured by an IQ-type test) in childhood predicts substantial differences in adult morbidity and mortality, including deaths from cancers and cardiovascular diseases. These relations remain significant after controlling for socioeconomic variables. One possible, partial explanation of these results is that intelligence enhances individuals' …
Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health
Virtually all indicators of physical health and mental competence favor persons of higher socioeconomic status (SES). Conventional theories in the social sciences assume that the material disadvantages of lower SES are primarily responsible for these inequalities, either directly or by inducing psychosocial harm. These theories cannot explain, however, why the relation between SES and health outcomes (knowledge, behavior, morbidity, and mortality…
What if the hereditarian hypothesis is true
Rushton and Jensen (this issue) make a strong empirical case that the long-standing, worldwide Black-White average differences in cognitive ability are more plausibly explained by their “hereditarian ” (50% genetic causation) theory than by “culture-only ” (0 % genetic causation) theory. This commentary also examines whether their data warrant the implications they draw for public policy, and whether critics are correct that sometimes it is bette…
Premorbid (early life) IQ and Later Mortality Risk: Systematic Review
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Politics (4 works)