Chris Brand
| Christopher Richard Brand | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 June 1943 Preston, United Kingdom |
| Died | May 28, 2017 (aged 73) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for |
Inspection time as a correlate of intelligence, The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychometrics |
| Institutions | formerly University of Edinburgh |
Christopher Richard Brand (1 June, 1943 – 28 May, 2017) was a British psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his statements on race and intelligence and paedophilia.
Brand was a proponent of IQ testing and the general intelligence factor and was "a major influence in the spread of influence of inspection time as a theoretically interesting correlate of psychometric intelligence," according to Ian Deary and Pauline Smith in the International Handbook of Intelligence, edited by Robert Sternberg. Deary and Smith report the correlation of inspection time with psychometric intelligence is currently considered to be .4. The 25th anniversary of the original discovery of this relationship was observed in 2001 by a special issue of Intelligence. Confirmation of Brand's claim of a specially high IT/IQ correlation in the low-IQ range was provided in Tucker-Drob, 2009, Developmental Psychology (psychometrics).
Brand was born in Preston, England on 1 June, 1943. He went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, and was a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a 1968–1970 Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was a Lecturer at University of Edinburgh, from 1970 to 1997, teaching in personality, psychopathology and philosophical problems and researching in factorial psychology. In the 1980s he served on the United Kingdom's Council for National Academic Awards. His 1996 book The g Factor garnered considerable media attention with its claim that inherited general intelligence was like psychological money. Brand wrote that general intelligence is an important factor in determining life outcomes for those with lower scores. He attributed socio-economic differences among people of African descent to differences in general intelligence.
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