Linda Gottfredson | |
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 Gottfredson interviewed in 2016 | |
| Born | Linda Susanne Howarth 1947 (age 76–77) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS) Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
| Known for | Mainstream Science on Intelligence |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Educational psychology Psychometry |
| Institutions | University of Delaware, editorial boards of Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, and Society |
| Thesis | The relation of situs of work to occupational achievement (1977) |
Linda Susanne Gottfredson (née Howarth; born 1947) is an American psychologist and writer. She 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. 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 (1994).
She 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.